skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cheap labor for corporate America

On H1b I make 400k in an industry that has 120k avg pay for my role. Tell me more about cheap H1b labor
Or MS-DOS.

I was reading a book on Microsoft's history and they did that back in the DOS days: any IBM PC clone that was sold had to pay for the MS-DOS license regardless of if the PC would be running MS-DOS or not. So unless someone explicitly asked for DR-DOS (and was fine to pay for both the MS-DOS and the DR-DOS license since the former would need to be paid anyway), manufacturers just used MS-DOS because it was "cheaper" (and with MS-DOS being the "standard" it isn't like they could afford to not license it).

The book was written in 1993 btw.
Apps and accounts are used for two things: to facilitate tracking and outsource administrative duties.

I do not install apps or create accounts.
But at least in that case, it's possible to get the money back. In this case, isn't the money absolutely, totally, 100% gone forever?
Two Long Island nurses made more than $1.5M in a fake vaccine card scheme
“In 2 years, Solana has processed 30x transactions of Bitcoin and Ethereum ever”
100% of it is spam and fraud.
That's true. What I mean is it won't keep being reformatted when everyone runs their own formatter on the code before they start working on it.
To further complicate the pancake taxonomy there is also the curiosity of “plättar”. Very small pancakes made in a special frying pan for more festive occasions. Not sure about their origin, but they are very common in Småland in the south of Sweden.

https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plättar#/media/Fil%3APlattla...
Could be any. A nap at noon isn't just popular; it's ubiquitous in SEA.
Surprisingly enough there are other consumer grade devices where one company controls the entire stack and deliver similar security -- game consoles. xbox os and ios have different designs but make similar security promises.
Interesting. Are you able to expand in this?
Recognise the investment banking job title inflation!

When a couple of people who used to work for me suddenly became Vice President, I congratulated them on their meteroic rise. Yeah, not so much they pointed out... :)
Why don't they reduce the insane taxes on computers and other stuff used in manufacturing? Simple things like laser cutting machines or lathes are taxed at ~27%. How do you expect people to compete in the global arena?
"there is no backend code!" - no... There is, just you moved it into the database. That doesn't mean you don't have to deal with it, maintain it, and change it over time.
The fact that there is a competitive candidate replacement native in Julia (Although a few man years in engineering time wouldn't hurt) is telling.
I feel like ArtStation is more geared towards professionals artists and illustrators. It's a blast if you're browsing but lack the community side of Deviantart.
HN on "fix [...] insomnia": Oh, the irony!
2022 Predictions: SRE Tools Will Start Speaking the Language of Developers
Supabase ceo here.

Your article is very cool.

> write postgresql triggers and functions in standard languages (Python, Javascript) seems to be vastly underutilized.

This is definitely something we provide tooling for over time. We have plv8 installed on all databases so it should be simple enough
Should have posted it on https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/
Sort of? You could appeal to the Ethereum developers, they could reasonably recover these funds without upsetting anyone too much by just refunding all WETH transactions sent to that contract. (This is the root of the spiritual disagreement between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic)

Of course you’re more likely to succeed when it’s real money and the other party has to worry about getting sued.

But even in the case of a bank transfer, the other party can abscond with your money and it’ll be extremely hard to recover since law enforcement probably won’t help you and (especially international) litigation costs can quickly render such an endeavor far too expensive.
>To find interesting people one must be interested in them first.

To which I'd like to add: it wouldn't hurt to also become interesting yourself by expanding your horizon: learn a new language, travel more, learn how to cook or another uncommon skill, try to become the (authentic) cheerful, optimistic person, other people would like to be around.
The US hasn't fought a serious war in recent decades. They've been bullying countries that practically couldn't fight back. A war against someone with an actual military (Russia, China, India) is different.

There is a great argument that they shouldn't be bullying people. It is a disgrace that the people who benefit from the bullying are getting rich. The bullying doesn't make the US strong either, it probably rots the military in strange ways. But that doesn't change the basic dynamic that the people who support the US war machine need to be paid or the machine will rust and become ineffective. The old maxim "he who wants peace, prepares for war" is a good hint at what will happen if the US tries to curtail war by cutting off funding to their suppliers. Real wars will be started and the US military would lose them.
Lovely to see Pessoa on here twice in about a month! As before, I'll recommend this BBC In Our Time episode if anyone's interested in some background: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q0yj
If anyone here has kids and likes what if questions check out the what if world podcast and if able support them on patreon
You're right. I had it a bit wrong.

What I should have said is if 3A at a standard voltage is within the charger's watt rating, then the charger has to support at least 3A at that voltage.

A charger has a top mandated voltage that depends on its watts. Standard voltages below the top mandated voltage, which is 15V on a 30W charger, have to support 3A.

But chargers are allowed to offer higher voltages if they want to. Thank you for clarifying that.

(And I did check the spec for this post, it is mandatory, USB Power Delivery Specification Revision 2.0 Version 1.3, section 10.2.2, Normative Voltages and Currents.)

Edit: I also checked the programmable supply rules now in Revision 3.1, it looks like 1) they have the same math mandating at least 5/9/15/20 volts based on wattage, 2) you can choose any voltage between 3.3v and the mandated max, 3) at those voltages it has to supply at least min(3A, [supply wattage] ÷ [chosen voltage])
He wrote it before 01694. Most of the English settlers who would define the American dialect of English hadn't moved to America yet in 01694, so there is no particular reason to expect Locke's definition to be more similar to the modern English definition than to the modern American definition. (And Nicosia claims that the result was in fact in between, even though she didn't beat it for the full 15 minutes.)
Could you describe the process: did you need to justify the time spent on refactoring in any way? ("why known bugs, requested new features should wait until the refactoring is done"--I'm playing devils advocate here. I'm interested, how you justified it before the management if you had one)
The only reasons you were able to have such a sleeping schedule and have a social life is because you not only didn't have a job that required you to be there in the morning, but you also did not have children to tend to.

In other words, you were lucky.
The metaverse is dystopian – but to big tech it’s a business opportunity
Yes, I agree, we need to NFTize it.
You need a differentiable forward model of the process, which is not available for the human brain.
I fail to see the point. It is basically GPS but ground-based with a cryptocurrency/web3 put on top of it.

First off, what is the point of adding a crypto on top of it ? Almost all "web3" project have failed to prove that there is any benefit in adding this layer.

Secondly, why not just use GPS/GLONASS/Galileo ? It doesn't explain why one would want to use this instead.

EDIT: After going through the whitepaper, it mention how it can use smart contract for location encoding, but in the same chapter it mention the solution OpenStreetMap. Yet again, agreeing on what is "the ground truth" is a human problem, not a tech one, and OSM already solve this. I fail to see how their smart contract would make it easier.

The other part is "we want a geospatial standard for the blockchain". Ok, but why ? Again, no explanation for why it would be useful for, what problem would it solve. What is the advantage of "geospatial in the blockchain" over GPS+OSM ?

And as for the last claim about the safety of GPS, sure it is possible to jam and spoof GPS signal. An encrypted protocol might be more resistant to spoofing, but as long as you use radio wave, I don't see how you are going to solve the jamming. It might be even worse. At least it is forbidden to jam the GPS signal. I couldn't find anywhere what frequency this system use. If it is a "public" frequency band, then anyone can, even unintentionally, jam their spectrum with no consequence.

Honestly, I really like the idea of having a decentralized, ground-based, location network. But I don't see how adding the "web3" on top of it has any benefit. There is already communities running decentralized network (for plane/boat tracking, air quality, satellite tracking, ...) based on trust, and it is working. Why had another layer of complexity that don't even solve the issue ?
I'm a huge fan of black, and have been using it in most of my projects for a long time.

That being said, my biggest gripe with it is that it has at some point started reformatting docstrings [0] in addition to the code -- strictly following PEP 257 [1] -- without any way to disable that behaviour. While I understand the desire to standardise, docstrings are not executable code, and should be allowed more flexibility when it comes to formatting.

[0] https://github.com/psf/black/issues/1779

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/
You can write functions PL/Python or whatever other availible languages.
It's trivial to have well structured files with functions that you auto generate migrations from.
Russia loses a million people in historic population fall
I think they are more similar to a crepe than an american pancake. They contain no rising agent, but a crepe is thinner.
Leaving aside that the normative part of the spec is still very clear that fsync() applies to all data for the open file descriptor, your line of reasoning fails for another reason. If we accept that fsync() as implemented in Linux is correct, what is its use? Is there any way to use fsync() "correctly" in the presence of IO errors?

As far as I understand, the answer is "definitely not" on Linux before 4.13, since failed async writes to the file could clear the dirty bit long before you called fsync(). There are some improvements since then, so arguably fsync() can now be used for something meaningful, though you have to take great care, and the only recourse on error is probably to start rewriting the file from scratch, even for transient errors (since the buffers may or may not be lost after the error, but future calls to fsync() will report success regardless).

Whether this behavior is a good idea or not is the only question that matters, since POSIX compliance hasn't mattered to Linux anyway for who knows how many years.
I wouldn't. A siesta would make life worse.

I can rarely nap - I nap when I'm sick and occasionally if I do not have enough sleep. And on top of it all, a siesta would take away daylight hours in the winter. I'm fairly far north and winters are dark (day is around 4.5 hours).

And honestly, I see little point in doing the cultural shift considering we aren't even making sure folks have proper food or heating nor that they have reasonable work hours (no one should need to work 50-60 hour weeks with any sort of regularity: You should hire more folks instead)
Not quite. This keeps all milk solids.
That's a ginourmous amount of eggs too.

This will taste very eggy. It's almost an omelette.
with these lyrics i might even like the song.

awesome reference!
True. But if the rate of heat loss is low enough, then it doesn't much matter.
This only works if you have friends to begin with. I'm a perpetual loner and the few people that I attract are usually loners too.
HN top story:

> Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“

HN story number 2:

> John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30132612
A few years ago is a long time ago in the compiler biz.
Recently started a small project with a limited number of developers and in the end; a limit number of users. But the project has an important function.

Decided on PostgREST as backend, with a thin VueJS frontend. We get a backend and API for free, and our developers know SQL very well.

I think it's a brilliant choice for our use case, although admittedly not something I would use for some other projects where I'd need more scaling on DB level, etc.
The problem is that most people who would need and benefit of those changes don't have the time or skill to make them themselves. So being able to share and distribute the modified version is an absolute bare minimum for the right to repair.
Companies in a monopoly position are more limited in what they are allowed to do.

Something that might seem like a usual business practice to a small fish like you or me, might be illegal for a monopoly.

Microsoft's lawyers tried using your argument to get partial summary judgement in Caldera v. Microsoft. They lost, and they lost the appeal. Here's Caldera's claim, quoting the summary in the US District Court judgement:

> In addition to its improper vaporware and FUD campaigns, Caldera alleges that Microsoft also forced OEMs away from DR DOS 5.0 by what plaintiff refers to as the "licensing triple-whammy," which refers to (1) per processor licenses, (2) minimum commitments subject to forfeiture, and (3) increased license duration. Per processor licensing agreements required an OEM to pay Microsoft a royalty on every machine the OEM shipped regardless whether the machine contained MS-DOS or a different operating system. This is in contrast to a per system licensing agreement, which required OEMs to pay a royalty on only those computers shipped with MS-DOS installed. The use of per processor agreements is argued by plaintiff to be Microsoft's most effective single weapon against DR DOS. Plaintiff alleges that DRI had no realistic chance to license DR DOS to OEMs under a per processor license with Microsoft. It would make no sense for an OEM to install DR DOS when it had already paid for MS-DOS on every machine. Microsoft contends that OEMs were free to depart from the per processor licensing scheme, and that price differentials between license types were "relatively minor." However, plaintiff points to the depositions of several OEM executives who testified that even slight price differentials between the per processor and per system licenses meant that only the per processor license was financially viable.

This case was specifically about illegal use of monopoly power, which is why you can read:

> By 1988 Microsoft had obtained a monopoly position in the DOS market. For purposes of the present motions, Microsoft does not dispute the contention that it has such a monopoly in the operating systems market.

Without that assumption they could not have gotten summary judgement.
You have reframed my comment to fit your bias. It certainly matters.
It should matter regardless of affiliation
Blueberry hands.
I think there are many tests used for testing sqlite that are not public. Hipp said so in a podcast I recall.
Alphv (BlackCat) is the first professional ransomware gang to use Rust (2021)
It does. Source: me, living in one of these countries.
"I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t know where it will take me, because I don’t know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I’m compelled to wait in it; I could see it as a social centre, for it’s here that I meet others. But I’m neither impatient nor common. I leave who will to stay shut up in their rooms, sprawled out on beds where they sleeplessly wait, and I leave who will to chat in the parlours, from where their songs and voices conveniently drift out here to me. I’m sitting at the door, feasting my eyes and ears on the colours and sounds of the landscape, and I softly sing – for myself alone – wispy songs I compose while waiting."

The Book of Disquiet -- Fernando Pessoa
Throw in some beer, works a charm for the taste too
Last November I started to have serious digestive upset, to the point where I missed most meals due to nausea, stomach cramps and diarrhea. Lost a tonne of weight and fell into anxiety and depression.

I was introduced to the idea of FODMAPs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP

A low FODMAP diet basically restricts stuff like gluten, a lot of fruit and vegetables, etc. I've found it has pretty much solved my digestive issues, and if I cave in and eat a bread sandwich... I'm suffering for the next 2 days.

I think the human digestive system is highly complex, and should be the focus of a lot of research. There's so much we still don't know about the effects of what we eat.

I hope one day I can reintroduce "normal" food again... Because frankly FODMAP restriction sucks. At least I'm not wasting away anymore.
I think dual-licensing is a good solution. Customers who want to profit from your software will purchase a "shared source" license. Customers who care for Open Source will use and detect bugs in the copyleft licensed version.

"Software Repair" is a feature, not a God-given right. And isn't it always better if the maintainers of the software do it for you so you don't have to do it yourself? If they do it it will benefit others besides the single do-it-yourself software repairer.

In practice I think only the maintainers of an open sourced software will actually fix bugs in it, although many users may report bugs.

Therefore there needs to be some mechanism which promotes the flow of financial incentives to the maintainers of open source software.

Dual-licensing would seem to be a solution. Give the bug-fixes and improved features, usability and performance improvements to paying customers first. If there are security problems those should of course be expeditiously shared with everyone.
I think Bezos checked out already, too.
Dbt is for analytics. It expects you to have some "raw data" and then building bunch of models and reports off of it.

I do think dbt is the answer for most of analytics, but for CRUD stuff with business logic it's not going to help you.
It’s impossible to tell for sure, but it looks like approximately half of open source contributions take place during working hours, and workdays have twice as many contributions as weekends, so I would say that yes, it is at least one main mode of operation.

You mention Linus Torvalds in another comment, but did you know he has been paid to work on Linux since around 1997?

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/for-50-percent-of-devel...
It should be possible to protect oneself. It is extremely difficult only because there are basically only two options if you want to have a smartphone: either iOS or Android. The immense power of nation-state adversaries is focused on just two targets.

And there are are no commercial off-the-shelf security solutions that can “protect” you. You have to do your own security. This is why Snowden had to painstakingly teach the journalists on how to use GPG to receive his cache. No other way would be trustful enough.
Exactly, gofmt is actually almost perfect. Ironically, it makes Rob's quote less meaningful.

I think gofmt's brilliance comes down to it not being overly pedantic, it doesn't have an opinion on how all code should be formatted, it only fixes what it sees as clear mistakes.
I encountered the idea of the 'night watch' and in fact the three traditional military watches of the night and their relationship with historical sleep patterns around the world thanks to The Paleolithic Prescription (1988) by Boyd Eaton, et al.[1]. Beyond introducing the idea of a paleolithic diet, Dr. Eaton along with his colleagues and students researched sleep and activity patterns in historical texts (records of Victorian doctors), the anthropological record, and practices of contemporary indigenous groups. As I recall, they found three sleep patterns commonly coexisting through recorded history and around the globe.

1) The night owl's late to bed and late to rise (first military watch)

2) The Dagwood Bumstead early to bed, up in the middle of the night, late to rise (second military watch)

3) Poor Richard's "Early to bed and early to rise" (third watch)

It was theorized that the three military watches possibly arose from prehistoric humans in small bands gaining survival advantages from having subsets of group members awake throughout the night.

I should also mention that long standing human practices involving nights when groups went without sleep showed up around the globe were studied as well. These existed independent of and seemingly well before showing up in academic settings and post industrial workplaces.

[1] https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/brothers-grimm-...
Just because you can do crazy stuff, doesn't mean you have to do it. Like the normal guy isn't trading interst rate derivates or stuff like that.

Also at least with european banking, if you wringly send money to another account, it is also gone forever. A lot of scams regarding old people build up on this. We do not need to buy google play store vouchers like the americans tonget scammed.
This is exactly how I used to order:

- "hello"
- "medium cheese pizza for delivery"
- "1 main st?" (they have caller id)
- "yes"
- "should be there in 20 mins" (it was)
That’s like saying “oops I burned my house down. Everyone can see it’s unspendable but at least it increased my neighbors value of their house because there are less houses.”

Houses (and crypto) are worth actual cash. Burning them doesn’t increase the value of others in any meaningful way.
It occurs to me that most of these queue size tradeoffs would be eliminated if the queue operated in a LIFO manner (a stack) instead of FIFO. That way, a burst can naturally get absorbed and re-emitted, but steady state high load doesn't result in increased latency, just packet loss. Can someone with more knowledge of networking enlighten me on why this is a terrible idea?
This is gone like into an incinerator though, right? There's by design no way of getting the WETH or ETH back, but also no one controls them anymore?
As a rhetorical question, I don’t think it achieves the goal you intend it to.

The reason you need to pay firefighters is because a few people might give some of their time, but a fire department needs to operate 24x7.

When you can’t find enough volunteers in your society, how do you solve the problem of buildings burning down at a time no-one chooses to volunteer?
Why not go to Arm?
Anders Sandberg, the author, was heavily involved with the orionsarm.com project (hard science-fiction worldbuilding). It was a big, big influence on my youth in the early 2000's, at the age of 17, while I went through a deep exploration of futurism and what could be possible in my lifetime.

This is where I learned of things like Dyson Spheres, which, sure enough, referenced one "Dyson Sphere FAQ" written by Sandberg himself.

https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/4845fbe091a18

http://www.aleph.se/Nada/dysonFAQ.html
Oh yeah, I’d assume that most people hate calling restaurants :)

It’s been a loong time since I last phoned in a pizza order, but for restaurant reservations it’s a daily thing (lots of places do have tables even though online booking says “full”).
Americans do not understand money transfer, they are still using cheques and western union.

To everyone: If you wrongly send money to a mistyped IBAN it is gone.