skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One weekend, I had somehow successfully repaired my dishwasher (turns out it was just a bad fuse that cost $10 to replace), and three smoke detectors simultaneously needed batteries replaced. So at that point, I realized:

1) I wish I could record this very proud achievement of mine (regarding the dishwasher). And also make a note of where I got the fuse, how I fixed it, etc., in case it broke again.
2) I wish that I kept better track of when I replaced my smoke detector batteries, along with other routine household activities.

And so here we are! This idea expanded into -- what if I could log whenever I did tasks like this around the house/yard and also jot down details (model numbers, battery types, etc.) about appliances and other household objects so that I could quickly reference them whenever they're needed.

Give it a try and let me know your thoughts, positive or negative!
Yet Another Telecom-Backed Think Tank Insists U.S. Broadband Is Great
That's why you always add a deadman check to your sensor monitoring.
Yea I like that as well over regular
It's truly unlimited now. I know someone who's pushing 1Gbps constantly (selling Plex access) and Hetzner have no issues with it.
(Sorry I set doc to private, decided the risk of a co worker seeing was too great)
None of those necessarily imply low risk / volatility, and on the long term chart crypto has satisfied all 3
I think you're taking his analogy further than he intended then are arguing against your version of his analogy.

Cloud was made for people who don't have the time, talent or desire to build and manage it in-house. You pay a premium for that convenience and that premium scales with your business growth via IT resource needs. I think that's what he was getting at in his analogy.
No idea about the Lambo, but the Ferrari programs seem designed to encourage driving the hell out of the car. Everything is X years with unlimited miles. When you buy the car, you can opt to purchase a 15-year long "you pay for gas and tires, we cover everything else including car washes" package. I'm sure the cost is insane, but then again so is the car.
I am paying my daughter's college tuition from a 529 plan, so this affects me even though I am not retiring soon.
When they integrated the buy now, pay later function you could make some scathing conclusion about the type of people calling the shots on Edge.

What does this have to do with a browser?
This seems to be it. I've noticed that only about a tenth of tweets that is recommended has links, it's definitely in the best interest of Twitter for you to stay there, but they're not specifically targeting any platform. For instance, it is well-known that embedded videos perform better (in visibility) than linking up YouTube. (Of course, if you have strong evidence that Telegram links are specifically targeted, I'll want to know it.)
It depends on the base rates. BTC has a 66% volatility while S&P 500 doesn't. One should expect such crashes with BTC.
In the footnote:

> borgcfg ... Truly one of the worst languages I have ever seen.

I'll see your borgcfg and raise you a reverse-Polish notation stack based one, written in a couple of hours and supporting a repo trading system for an investment bank for years.
Cities also make it much easier for your friends to actually show up. When I lived in a large city all my friends where either a walk or a short subway ride from a central meeting point. Now when we've all traded that in for larger living rooms we're all spread to the winds and we'd have to collectively spend hours in a car to all get together. Trading an apartment in the city for a larger living room has meant that I see much less of my friends than I used to.
Bitcoin is probably the first Ponzi scheme where everyone in it knows it is a Ponzi scheme. So I agree with your take here.
Retool is not meant for doing

1) external apps
2) mobile apps

Check adalo if you want to do customer facing apps.
Don’t forget “collecting” is an experience too. Even if you don’t get much experience from an item the hobby of collecting itself is an experience. Deciding what to buy and when. How to display it, etc.
Ask HN: Who has changed careers from engineer to patent agent/lawyer?
I have the chance to move from my engineering career (full-stack robotics, software engineering, cloud background) to assist a law firm as a patent agent in my respective fields. Has anyone made this transition who can offer some input on how that transition played out and what they learned?
So... what's the best place for someone in the US to invest in crypto currencies?
Sure, but Western Europe has the same interests and can do the legwork itself.
Cool, I made one called https://mixmatchdomains.com but it never really got much traffic (single digits per day). Maybe the AI thing makes it more marketable, or just being able to type in an open textbox for pure simplicity.
The part of this post that I find most wonderful/strange:

> EDIT: I think that Edward Kmett and Paul Crowley might have figured out how to solve this problem in the comments on my Facebook post; see here. I’ll investigate further and update.

> EDIT 2: actually we didn’t solve the problem, but it might still be a good direction for future research.

Possibly ground-breaking math being done on comments on a Facebook post.
I'm not sure I understand what this is showing.

What does "Just printed $100,494,053 USDC!" mean?

I think this means that someone minted $100M of USDC by depositing USD.

The way this normally happens, USD deposits are made to an exchange that has a relationship with Circle, and 1 USDC is minted for each 1 USD on deposit at Circle.

Circle then invests those funds in things that are considered financially prudent, making some amount of money, but preserving the full amount of USD required to back the issued USDC. What they really do with the money has historically been the concern by people who don't trust corporate transparency, maybe rightfully so.

These "usdcoinprinter" tweets seem to imply that Circle is just making up fictional USDC not backed by anything to prop up the failing crypto market. As in, "we just minted $100M USDC which we'll now use to buy bitcoin, to keep the price of bitcoin high"? I'm not sure I see how that could work without Circle risking their entire business and probably committing some type of fraud.
Semver was not yet common practice when 1.2 was released.
Imo any new EV contract should come with rental car points for this sort of thing
exactly. I care about privacy, and I do see that page often. Sometimes it helps to send a non-empty useragent string, or to enable javascript. Most of the time I just close the tab.
It's because your interaction with the computer is based on language which is more natural than graphical point and click interaction.
> Vitamin D clearly does protect people by a significant degree and it is not mandated.

Mandates are rare and restricted to things which are well-established scientifically, like the efficacy of vaccination.
Like you I've predicted 20 of the last 3 crashes.

I know people that bought at the peak in 2019 at $20k despite me laughing at them. They sold them last year, more than doubled their money and had a nice holiday. Don't know many that bought last year other than those that just buy every month come rain-or-shine.

Everyone knows bitcoin is nothing more than greater-fool gambling with a side effect of enabling a lot of criminal computer activity (ransomware, sextortion, etc).
Thanks for the extensive perspective. I totally agree that React seems like a use-case for enterprise and complex web apps. I would definitely find it beneficial to learn about it, but my time is limited and I only do it to build my small projects.

Thank you for the great examples on complexity though - was really helfpul to understand.
Is remote work a benefit worth pursuing?
Yeah I see that too I'll add that to my comment tbh I think what I said still stand it's been made hard or maybe said a different way is:

It's very easy to overspend on these big cloud providers

Oh I can't edit the comment now oh well sorry if I've confused anyone.
An MVP Needs to Spark Joy
Modern treasury operations for large cash holders absolutely “invest” in currencies. They do so in the form of what cash they hold outside of their immediate needs and in what cash “equivalents” they keep on their books.
sure - but then also think about the use case - he is using a storage account, which means that inclusive in the cost is

a - replication (within region / AZ at least)
b - 0 software to maintain (no need to frantically patch apache / SSL / whatever)
c - super quick set up / management / logs / etc

So, yes, bare metal is (on a cpu cycle to cpu cycle / GB RAM/HDD/Bandwidth) level cheaper, but TCO can be waaaaaayyy higher.
Yes, it’s truly criminal that the SEC hasn’t approved more ways for speculation in cryptocurrency. It’s not as if an Average Joe can just go out and buy cryptocurrency or something. Can you imagine what the market volatility would be if cryptocurrency proponents were allowed to convince naïve people to invest their money, too?
Ask HN: How to extract the most data via Chrome/Firefox browser on Android?
I'd like to demonstrate (for a university class that I'm teaching) what you can find out about your/an android phone from a simple html-page with some java-script (i.e. Battery status, IP-Adress, etc.). Is there a project that shows all the available data on one page (no obfuscation, secrecy, etc. needed)? Note: iPhone Information is okay, too, but afaik delivers much less (reliable) data.
good luck getting a gigabit speeds from a hetzner box in any form of consistency
I believe this is why I think they have noticed that Telegram is trying to get more traffic via Twitter, and thus the reason they're trying to suppress the exposure of TG links.
Which person trusts the battery on a ten-year-old early-generation electric vehicle?

What down payment is required before leasing a new electric vehicle for two or three hundred United Kingdom Quids? How much insurance must be carried for such a vehicle?

I do not doubt that the electric vehicle is a fantastic choice for the financially secure person. But many are not so fortunate.
I really dislike these "virtual memory" approaches. Developers should "pay their taxes" and make applications well-behave with regard to memory, rather than forcing by default to segfault on every memory access outside of process bounds which is a real annoyance.
In this case, that arguably would have been preferable.

A lot of cloud cost objections would be solved if they defaulted to that instead of defaulted to just charging you the fees. That has its own tradeoffs, of course, but I find myself suspicious that the reason the clouds work this way isn't so much a cold and sober consideration of the aforementioned tradeoffs so much as "this way makes more money when we charge people lots of money they weren't expecting" and "this way makes lots of money when the people deploying the service are organizationally and fiscally disconnected from the people paying for it so they care and notice less".
So now the critical deficiencies of Crypto as a currency, become it's selling points? I guess for the con-men and shysters that makes a sensible point of view. Fleece the sheep!
I've programmed professionally in Haskell, I find Nix the Language to be one of the nicest DSLs for defining build pipelines. It's lazy, pure, and it's sandboxed. Whenever you need types on top of it you just pick Dhall and dhall-nix and continue with a productivity gain.
They neglect to mention the one number that matters. The thermal efficiency versus existing heat recovery tech in use.
Agree about 1, about 2 I Think there isn't anything wrong about the prototype differing for top level qualification from the implementation which is perfectly legal. I normally grep function names, if I want semantic search I use lsp.

Regarding 3, eh, leading programmers is like hearding cats.
You can't be a store of value if your value drops randomly.

You especially can't be an inflation hedge if you drop while inflation goes up.
I'd think that's already a thing.

I have a Peltier-powered fan that I put on top of my wood stove. It spins extremely fast. I like it because I can tell how hot my stove is by looking at the fan, instead of walking over to the wood stove and looking at the thermometer: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=wood+stove+fan&sprefix=wood+st%2C...

You can even find devices that you can put into a campfire to charge a phone: https://www.iphoneness.com/cool-finds/campfire-chargers-for-...
> I haven't found a clear list of packages that were going to be updated.

The ideal here, IMO, is to use flakes and the nix-diff to compare the build before switching. E.g.

nixos-rebuild --flake '.#myhost' build
nix-diff /nix/var/nix/profiles/system result
sudo nixos-rebuild --flake '.#myhost' switch

Could do the same without flakes after the fact by running nix-diff on different generations in /nix/var/nix/profiles (there may be a way before switch). It’s unfortunate that how to do the above is non-obvious.
"to make it almost always increase in value"

To any investor this should be the biggest red flag that you are in a Ponzi/pump and dump scheme. "You can't lose!"

And rather than you are "buying electricity" I would say you are buying used electricity, which is useless.
For sure, I think if you can achieve certain things faster with a framework then why not as well? I guess if its a very simple app JS is totally enough and vanilla CSS as well. But if I would be say building a marketplace app, without the framework I would probably spend double the time and reinventing the wheel. That being said I agree that its not cool to constantly search for the next best framework - the thign is, I am looking for a first one :)
Please explain to me how Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme while USD after 1971 (going away from the gold standard) is not.

More so explain to me how the USD is less of a Ponzi scheme when it is the super wealthy banks/institutions that are getting zero interest loans allowing them to make even more money while at the same time devaluating the currency.
"Some time ago we started a complex, continuous and not always linear operation, that is to migrate, where possible, most of the servers (ours and of our customers) from Linux to FreeBSD."

I don't really disagree with any of the stated reasons, but I also didn't see a reason that would make me even consider making the move with our servers, or even bother with some small number of servers. At least for me, I'd need a bunch of REALLY GOOD reasons to consider a move like that. A huge cost savings AND some huge time savings in the future might do it.
I'll tell you why I disagree taking the same 5 year chart-- the nature of the rapid rise means new money always going in.

That is to say, very large amounts of new money are being lost.
Keep in mind that cryptocurrency algorithms don’t work only on your computer: You have to collaborate with the rest of the network to come to a consensus, and many of those counterparties reside in jurisdictions other than yours. I’m no lawyer but that feels like a pretty straightforward example of interstate commerce, which the federal government has explicit authority to regulate in the US.
Well, looking at the graph trend, there's an argument that it should be trading at $15 when you take out speculative bubbles.

Who knows.
It’s a “luxury belief”[1] and it shows that some people either forgot or never really knew how the other half lives.

1: https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of...
Nix is wonderful, but absolutely is under-documented. (In part due to a small community, etc.).

A couple of examples I've run into:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2259 showed people trying to make use of the "hello world" package which was given in the NixPkgs manual, but couldn't quite figure out how to get it to build.

e.g. if you want a package that's a simple script, "writeScriptBin" seems like what you'd want. -- But it's really not clear how to use it from the manual; you'd have to read the nixpkgs source.
https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#trivial-builder-wri...
Oh, I see, thank you for the clarification. I figure it’s just as hard to get a list of transitive packages dependencies without apt or whatever as it is without nix, though. And there’s an argument to be made that a pure function on a derivation can be considered static. But I don’t disagree with any of the general points: especially that nix the language, or more specifically nix in practice as it’s used in nixpgs, is very hard to learn.
TL;DR - for no compelling reasons.
Why would one try to formulate it as a function of the input length in binary? Does this have a practical relevance? Why not think about it in terms of the numbers given in decimal, their count and their size? And what is the input length in this problem? The numbers encoded in binary? Pretty sure it cannot be computed by just looking at how many numbers are given in each list.
I would say this is pretty obvious. Moving form an object will leave it in a different state than it was before. Obviously it can't be done for const objects.
Wow! That makes it pretty hard to know you've generated useful JSON especially if your goal is to for cross-ecosystem communication.
I bought a 3 year old Leaf 7 years ago for £6500, apart from tyres, spent £30 on new windscreen wipers, and last week £125 on a suspension thing.

1p/mile, £0 tax per year. And same year model is on sale for more than £6500 today
You're assuming that the period will remain of manageable size. I see no reason why this should be the case.

Edit: Also found a more accessible website describing how to do arithmetic with continued fractions: https://perl.plover.com/yak/cftalk/. In case anyone wants to try it out.
Yeah, I've played it at meetups with just a folded piece of paper and a pen. It's good fun. There's a better board game implementation of it (that's also on that same list) called Telestrations, with laminated flipbooks and dry erase markers and cards for starting ideas (which I mostly don't use when I play the game), that makes the experience a bit easier, but they're both the same game at heart.
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High medical bill in the ER leaves family reeling
Betting on the difference between is done by buying and selling them. I'm no defender of cryptocurrencies but speculation and trading have been a major feature modern forex markets since their inception.
I want to push the cause further back. The problem is not that rates are going up, the problem is that rates were close to zero for so long,
Infinite Series Reveal the Unity of Mathematics
NixOS and Guix are nice! Guix folks are doing some wonderful work off late.

I have used NixOS for a while. But for casual desktop GNU/Linux users, it seem like solving a problem that doesn't exist. Have been using Debian on all my computers since 1998. Unless you are using Debian unstable and updating it daily, I hardly hit any breakage.

Servers and deployments is another story.
Apple's Plan for Third-Party In-App Payments Insufficient, Says Dutch Regulator
It’s a coincidence. It was already near the top pre-pandemic. I actually expected it to drop when a real pandemic started. We haven’t played it since the pandemic started ;-)
Statistically, seems just as likely a long COVID sufferer could have depression, as it is they have activated MS.
your assessment would make sense if we had any reason that US is considering that for humanitarian or altruistic reasons. rest assured - the only reason ever for any country (especially US) sending troops anywhere is for own benefit.
Irrational numbers are involved in the problem, but not in the the size of the input, which is a list of natural numbers. There are a number of reasonable ways to encode such a list but they'll all scale in more or less the same way and be equivalent when looking at big O notation.
The USD is backed by the power to tax 330 million people. Bitcoin is not.
How is a state going to stop crypto? Prompt the Sun to spew a solar EMP and take the rest of us to cavemanland?

Also, crypto is a response to centralized statism in banking, etc. Any response from nation-states is, by default, defensive, as it must be, as states are inherently regulatory.

You have a seriously dangerous technology here too. What critical mass of 8 billion people is required to adopt a coin such that the currency of standard no longer is?

If you don't control the money, you don't control the power. If you don't control the power, then you are, at best, a figurehead, powerless, no binding authority.

(See present-day royalty, or what remains of it.)
I thought this was building up to: here is who it's NOT good for and how to help them.

But it doesn't. It just says it's great for everyone. Which it obviously isn't... It's good for some, horrible for others.
did you just said that crypto pretends to be a low risk investment?
I have a tangential question on this part:

> I sometimes experienced severe system slowdowns due to high I/O, even if the data to be processed was not read/write dependent. On FreeBSD this does not happen, and if something is blocking, it blocks THAT operation, not the rest of the system.

I’ve seen this for a long time in Windows, where any prolonged I/O brings the entire system down to its knees. But it also seems to affect macOS (which is based on FreeBSD) as a system, though it’s not as bad as on Windows. Has Windows improved on this over the years? I’m unable to tell.
I've gotten paid for code in XMR. It's great and absolutely useful. I wish everyone used it.
I don't think that's fair. Maybe half of their reasons are more on the subjective side but half of them are actual technical choices like wanting ufs/zfs and jails.
USA has natural resources, advanced technologies, and a standing armed forces that are stationed all over the world. These extract value and serve as utility.

Bitcoin is better at laundering money than many fiat currencies but otherwise it’s only wide scale utility is a speculative investment asset that only increases in value if more people create demand for its limited supply.
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2) vaccines don't prevent transmission
> The illegal vehicles had adjustable carburetors that were not described in their application for certification, were produced by a different manufacturer than the one specified in the application, were manufactured prior to the date of the certificate of conformity, had model names that were not identified on the certificate of conformity, or were significantly more powerful than described. The illegal engines were incorrectly certified as non-road engines rather than as recreational vehicles and some were significantly more powerful than described in the allegedly applicable certificate of conformity. The EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice also alleged that the emission control information labels on certain vehicles did not comply with federal regulations, and that Tractor Supply Company provided an incomplete and inaccurate response to EPA’s information request.

> According to the charges, the company's engine software
controls the timing of fuel injection into the combustion
chamber, causing the engine to emit excessive amounts of NOx
while the truck is running on the open road. However, the
company's engine software is designed in such a way so that these
emission levels do not show up on the federal test.

What do any of these have to do with end users modifying their equipment?
I think this depends. For OPS people no longer having to physically go into a DC I agree but you've now pushed a bunch of work developers especially now will have a harder time as they used to make code and there was someone who sorted infrastructure now the devs themselves are kept up all nights with AWS stuff going up and down.

If cloud improved QOL for ALL employees I'd agree but I think it just shifts work around and costs more.