skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had discussions with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle on this subject, and they’ve pointed me to other writings on the matter.

For those authors who do a lot of world-building, the reader never sees 90-99% of the world that is built. The purpose of doing that world building is to have a scaffold on which the story can be hung, and which will help keep the story self-consistent.

As a reader, you don’t need to know why a character had a particular relationship with their parents in a certain way, or what the nature of that relationship was. However, the nature of that relationship might drive a number of critical choices that the character would make, and therefore drive the story in a particular direction.

I know that for my own characters I’ve created for role-playing games, I can get quite creative in their backstory, and write many pages on the subject. Most of that will never, ever show up in any game that I play, but I can also guarantee that all of it will inform choices that the character makes as we go through the campaign.
Metabase, looker, redash, periscope
Clancy and Rush Limbaugh were two prominent Mac advocates in the 1990s when Apple seemed doomed and everyone outside publishing and graphical design had more or less abandoned the Mac.
That seems different where medvac’s can be converted to standard choppers versus evacing troops from helicopters with machine guns on them as standard operating procedures.
It's kind of the opposite.

Highly intelligent people are most productive when they are tackling problems they enjoy. You cannot just order them around and tell them to go tackle climate change or whatever.

As long as they enjoy tackling crypto shaped problems, they will keep jumping in until enough crypto shaped problems are solved that only really frustrating ones are left.

If you want to change how things work, you have to change the environment for problem solving. Make it more or less enjoyable.
Do you have any data that shows people just make shit up? Do you have any citations that show asking for citations leads to reasoned discussions?

Maybe you see the point: Asking for data and citations is pretending to be rationale and civil, but usually it's just another form of sealioning. No, I don't have data to support that.
Calling hate speech and attempts to reintroduce an ideology that sank a continent into war and killed millions a bland "offending someone" is so obviously bullshit that it's a marvel to me how you could write that without disintegrating into a puddle of shame.

Or maybe you did -- do you, at long last, have some sense of decency left?
I’ve lost mine and got it back but the person who found it had a look at it and his attitude alone made me almost made me quit the habit. Now I only journal any sensitive stuff on password secured app and I really miss the paper. I feel so limited by typing.
Thanks, that’s was really insightful. I wonder if global agreements are really unimaginable. There have been quite a few from the old days, e.g. international marine conventions. What do you think?
Wow that is nice.

Does anyone know what that yellow spot in the middle of the image is?

https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/natural/2022/02/12/png/ep...

I have two thoughts.
1. it would be near the tonga volcano
2. it is suspiciously right in the middle of the image. Sun glare due to the orbit matching the sun?

edit: added link to image in question as I realized the earth actually spins.
That's a huge issue too in the UK, especially on three lane roads and wider, where you can just sit in lane two forever, if your skin is thick enough, and everyone will just have to over- and under-take you.

It's actually been illegal for some years and can get you a £100 fine, though I don't know if that's ever actually happened: you'd have to have the bad luck to encounter traffic police who do anything other than speed-gun free-flowing motorways from bridges.
I’m a constant “I’m gonna quit this shit and go farm alfalfa” comic. Not unique, but I grew up in the trades working with family.

The biggest thing that jumps out to me about programming vs my father’s work is the agency. He goes into a home, diagnoses, and fixes an issue. No MBA / PM / Scrum Bags to needlessly insert themselves into a process and cause issues. Contrasted with most jobs where I get delivered a small chunk of an issue (as a Senior / Lead) which robs me of my agency as a professional and often time just leads to more delays and defects driven by a lack of a coherent vision passed down. Rather abstract, but infuriating when I damn well know I could have delivered higher-quality and ahead of schedule. Providing “Commander’s Intent” is a very real necessity.

I don’t know that tangible vs. intangible is a factor, for me at least, making web / mobile oriented systems. Hell, even a really good shell script to codify a workflow for coworkers is insanely satisfying.

Other than that, human interaction. Having a human be genuinely satisfied that you helped them with their issue they couldn’t have solved... that’s rewarding at a level rarely ever get.

The big offer is comfort (both in workplace and in salary) is the primary offer - perhaps to many friction is the spice of life.
Making money from books is hard in general. OP found a great niche and amazing market fit. For frontend books, you will have tough competition not just from other similar books, but also bootcamps, free tutorials etc.
India's Life Insurance Corp files $8B IPO papers
If you’re on mobile, where the site is a little hard to use, or otherwise prefer to read in plaintext, a plaintext version is at https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/mark-cuban-s-...
Monopoly just increasingly seems to mean any successful company that changes its pricing structure.
I'm happy to inform you that nowadays the storks in Belgium are sort of returning. There's two successful breeding programs happening: one in "Het Zwin" and one in "Planckendael". It is sadly true that the stork used to be quasi-extinct over here. Outside of these breeding programmes I've never seen one around.
It is fast enough for bringing back Flash like experience.

https://platform.uno/uno-platform-for-web-webassemby

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/

Or Java applets

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/

Or Silverlight

https://opensilver.net/
> "decoded the HTML source code"

> "Highway Patrol's Digital Forensic Unit"

This could have been a joke. I'm sorry, but can these people be serious?

Really, the digital forensic unit is under the umbrella of the "Highway Patrol"?

I bet they're all into decoding HTML source codes all day long...
This. If you can use Go you can skip ngnix and add auto cert gen with let’s encrypt with about 3 lines of code.
I don't think the reduction in speed from 70 to 60 is as significant as bunching cars from 10+ seconds gap to 2, or less for BMWs.
The first step towards Jurassic Park
Then why are we building it? To fleece people who are not as smart? All this just seems insane to me.
Thank you for the encouragement. I think that might actually help me reduce the risk aversion I feel about it now.
I'm curious why do you think of DAX as a virtue. My poor SQL-shaped peg brain has never really fit the DAX hole of MS software.

Also, it always struck me as something too complex for the non-technical folks, and not expressive enough for tech-literate analysts/data engineers &c.
ACX Grants ++: The Second Half
Yup

The speed of sound in air is ~340 m/s, in water ~1,430 m/s, and in steel ~5920 m/s.
One of the coolest and easiest Physics home experiments, is to build your own cloud chamber, and use it as a particle detector.

https://www.snolab.ca/outreach/resources-for-students-educat...

"Build a particle detector":

https://www.snolab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Build-a-par...

https://youtu.be/xky3f1aSkB8

"Cosmic Rays and the Cloud Chamber":

https://crater.unh.edu/pdfs/CosmicRayBook.pdf
Seriously. I bought a house to renovate and the painting turned into a drywall refactoring thanks to the chemical peel used by the previous owners…I fixed up one bathroom that actually needs a tear out just to make a deadline for move in…bath tear out was pushed out to the next major update planned…
The last two data exchange agreements between US/EU were overturned. I think it's unlikely at this point unless the USA adjusts some of its surveillance laws.
Awesome little utility. Does what it says, and does it well. Nice job.
To be a little more specific, you're conflating two things here.

1) Stress relieving is tensioning the spokes by grabbing pairs and squeezing them. This takes a elastic bending moment in the j-bend and over-stresses it into plastic deformation, permanently changing the shape of the spoke. When relaxed from the stress relieving, the spoke is bent differently, and the stress in the spoke is more uniform with less of a bending moment. (bending moments lead to a compressive stress on one side and tension on the other, superimposed over the tension of the spoke. If the compressive side of the spoke winds up with an actual stress reversal on every wheel revolution, it will start to crack and fail in O(1e6) cycles, or 2000km). Due to the overstress here, this also beds the spoke into the hub.

2) Windup comes from the spoke being a long torsional spring. There's friction between the spoke threads and the nipple, and if the threads aren't lubricated, the friction is enough to twist the spoke instead of tightening the thread. You'll still see some of this with thinner spokes and higher tension, but you can back off a bit on each adjustment and make sure that the spoke isn't twisted before going on. This windup causes the pinging when a new wheel is used for the first time, and each spoke is somewhat unloaded when it's at the bottom of the rotation. This reduces the friction in the threads, and the spoke springs back, changing it's total length.

Incidentally, the highest compression in the rim and highest tension ever in the spokes is in the stress relieving step of wheel building. This is where a super tensioned wheel will potato chip buckle if it's going to. Adding a tire and air pressure reduces the spoke tension. When riding, the bottom ~4ish spokes detension somewhat (depends on the spoke count, numbers are for old school 32ish/ 700c not terribly deep rims).
This seems... odd to me. I don't understand the industry well, but if you're sugesting that YC benefits from having stakes in lots of competing companies that therefore co-operate, that's a cartel, not a monopoly.

I do think the new terms are YC trying to capture more of their advantage though.
That is true! But if they find some other vuln that gets them the cookie perhaps the proxy could still be of use.
"World War II didn't have gas because it was tactically and strategically useless"

Do you really believe that? That would imply that if one side side started doing it, the other would have just laughed at their waste of resources and continue enjoying the benefits of doing without. I don't think that this is what would have happened. Tactical and strategical situations weren't as "inviting" for gas attacks as the endless stalemates of ww1, but useless? I don't think so. The game of eye for an eye does not need any international conventions.

An important caveat in all intensity for shortness tradeoffs is that the entire argument breaks down if the change can be negated by the other side doing the same.
Well, to be fair, they are offering Prometheus as a service, and they built it as a façade upon Monarch, which pretty convincingly demonstrates the superiority of Monarch.

I just find a kind of perverse humor in the fact that outside google Prometheus is viewed as alien technology - it even has that condescending name - but inside Google borgmon was considered the punch line of memes and/or a hazing ritual.
I wouldn't. There are no silver bullets. I would say (assuming there were no other motivations) to trial whichever popular, community-supported and well-documented frameworks seem the best match for whatever skills (languages, business domains, whatever) they already have, and go with the one they feel most comfortable with.
1 is questionably valuable and arguably harmful, 2 is increasingly untrue, 3 and 6 aren't inherent benefits of Ethereum, 4 and 5 aren't true, and 7 is speculative and begs the question.
Is this actually true?

"If you write an app for either platform, you have to publish it through the respective walled garden, and you can do so for free—but then it must contain built-in advertisements that provide Apple and Google with surveillance data of your users. If you want to protect your users from that, you must sell the app for money and hand over a cut to compensate Apple and Google for the missing advertisement and surveillance revenue."

I remember back in the early days uploading a free app with no ad frameworks to the play store, and I believe there are plenty of third party ad networks (that I'd assume don't share data with Apple/Google)
Warning, site hijacks my back button on iOS/safari.
I have no idea why but paper is just different. My wife has been doing art on her iPad. She noticed the same thing. She found these amazing textured matte screen protectors that give a little microscopic bounce like pen to paper. That may be an alternative to check out!
If the last lottery ticket winner hadn't bought a powerball ticket, they also wouldn't be worth millions.

Beware the survivorship bias: https://xkcd.com/1827/
I knew somebody who might have been the last person from Elmira, NY working for IBM. Not long after IBM blew up their email system, he left.
If you’re as good a parent as your comment suggests, I bet they’d trade the money for more time with you.
Pixar A113
> Their portfolio boasts over $400B in value

I don't understand - YC doesn't own these companies does it? They just have a minor 7% investment? So YC isn't worth $400B. What is it worth?
Next Covid strain could kill many more, warn scientists ahead of restriction end
Another interesting page covering a period of MS-DOS history. Albeit incomplete and fairly editorial.

https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/retro-faq-dos-199...
Notice that the people complaining seem to be other funds, not founders or startups.

The reason YC is so popular is that they cater for founders and startups.

YC terms are well-laid out, fairly easy to understand, and reasonable.

They also are huge for networking.
It echoes the famous Instagram architecture talk. Almost exactly.

https://youtu.be/hnpzNAPiC0E
No thank you! Had an encounter with a standoffish bull last year in Spain, and not a fan of roaming bovines since.
So now for the fun question: who do I have to tweet at to get Citi to wire me millions of dollars?
So I don't know anything about crypto, but stories like this make me think that crypto can never become mainstream. I have been programming since 1970; I worked for major computer companies; I was a computer science professor; I have apps on the App Store. In spite of all of this, I have not the foggiest idea, even after reading the thread, how someone who offers to give me something can use the gift to steal from me. Surely this says that the world at least of ETH (whatever that is) is really really broken!
> They are so confident in their power that they have recently instituted new funding terms that crowd out seed investors (their partners of yesteryear).

This quote is hilarious and actually proves that YC is moving farther from a monopoly than to one. YC had to make their funding terms much more competitive (better for founders) because of the insanely increasing competition and the flood of capital into VC.
Fiddling with IRQ settings was because the IBM PC design didn't allow sharing of interrupts (I think because they didn't expect it to be as popular as it was). Squeezing out memory was due to two design flaws---one being IBM assigning the address space above 640K for peripherals and ROMS (MS-DOS never had a 640K limit) and two being MS-DOS required memory to be contiguous.
I really don't understand the widespread fear of C/C++ that I see so often. The vast majority of security pitfalls are from using very old functions that don't check input. These are easily caught with linters and scanners. In many cases the compiler itself will warn you if you use them. Don't ignore warnings!
I don’t remember any case related to accessing first party resources, can you give a link ?
Should I be buying an AMD processor?
I think you could find most of those opinions in HN discussions where they might apply. Actually that's a good thing I think, overall it's pretty hard to really be "contrarian" here. There is a groupthink and people with an agenda will down vote your nonconforming posts, but it's actually pretty tough to find a unique position that everybody else dismisses.

I'd like to see someone argue for something ridiculous, like "open source is a fad and more control of IP will be better for society" (I don't believe this) or some other truly contrarian and interesting position
It is an hack, given that other languages don't need such "solutions".

In those 5 years, D's competition reduced even further the need to actually bother with D, slowly taking away all features that made D special.
Opening a communications channel to a third party, e.g. a shady spyware company like Google, requires content, which makes sense.
On iOS - 1Blocker + Safari (Including their local VPN), Duckduckgo browser and Brave browser.

I use 1Blocker with Safari for almost everything as Safari allows a default zoom of > 100%.
I'd hoped that's exactly what comes across in my top-level comment. I've been lucky enough to be at or near the coalface of PaaS for most of its life, both as a basic engineer getting my head around deploying CRUD apps on Heroku and its ilk, and as an architect contemplating the designs of various PaaSs. My little sketch of a story is how I saw things unfold. Don't get me wrong, Kubernetes is amazing, it's everything we hoped for, I use it and recommend it. But the only thing that's innovative about it is that it's backed by a big player, so we can rely on at least a few years of active development and mindshare. But from my perspective, the great innovation, the thing that really changed the game, was The 12 Factor App manifesto. That's what deserves a documentary made about it, because it's just a text document, but it inspired so much.
A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning Us (2019)
Except k8s is really, really not a PaaS. It can be used to build a PaaS in style of Heroku, but it's not one. It's lineage spans all the way back to IBM ASP in 1967, arguably even to 7094/7044 directly-coupled system (but that didn't have multiple worker nodes), hitting various systems on the way (TOPS-20 Galaxy, VMScluster, HPC scheduling systems for MPP supercomputers and probably many more I can't recall).

It's about efficient use of multiple machines, or as Google & ex-Google employees called it in a book released at similar time as Heroku went from private beta to GA, "Datacenter as a Computer".

12 factors were important, but they just as well can apply to noncontainerised software (arguably, they are just as valid in the ~2000 world of EJB java servers, except replace "environment variables" and the like with JNDI).

That said, Rails exploding in popularity around the same time as EC2 became an option heavily helped push the generic case out of the hell of PHP with occasional CGI (ASP usually meant you had more resources than shared hosting from hell)
Why does it look the way it does though? Even without a PCB, this could be neater.
The author would benefit greatly by reading Karl Marx's Critique on Political economy. In this article they are mixing the notions of use value-cost, price-money.

One example is open source. Open source code has by definition 0 exchange value, thus 0 price. It is insanely usefull but you can't make a single cent selling them. This is no paradox, and one can inderstand how that works by reading the book.
This is so short sighted on the side of intel. If anything, intel needs to reduce the sku count of the xeons, not add dozens more options. Microsoft started doing this after they realized that people don’t want to look at a spreadsheet to figure out what they actually need.

Nobody has time for this crap.
It's a super massive stretch to imagine this invalidates Ethereum. Only some specific types of contracts are vulnerable to front-running issues and there are workarounds. The article is about the difficulty of being the first to take from a contract offering free money. This isn't an issue about regular contracts being unsafe to use.

I think the title misportrays the issue as being much more general than it is. For some reason I see the article brought up often in Twitter conversations by people who don't understand Ethereum and are trying to argue as if regular transactions are vulnerable to theft.
Another excellent device in this genre is the RP2040-based PicoSystem from Pimoroni.

Surprisingly good build quality, but don’t have a big library of games yet. I guess it has to do with Pimoroni making things more for the DIY-crowd rather than for indie game devs.

Anyhow loved more here by the 4 year old than the Nintendo DS.. :)

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picosystem
I was never really aware of heroku.

I knew app engine and other things for much longer.

I would not subscribe to your interpretation.
Yeah this has been posted before, and the message is always the same: If you want to trade in ethereum, just remember that you're dealing with a technology created by psychopaths. The Dark Forest wasn't somewhere you went for a walk.
Teenage me was so glad to have found Tibia after I ran into a wall trying to play UO from Germany with no CC.

Thus I never got into UO, but randomly came across Tibia. Back then it still ran on the server of the University of Regensburg where the German developers went to uni while creating the game.

The community was so small back then, one of the friends of the developers, acting as community guy, even gave me a little tour around the game, showing me hidden zones where people would train block skill on a bunch of spiders stacked on one tile. Explaining the basic rules how players should behave towards each other as not to come into conflict with "the law", which was players acting as sheriffs.

And it was totally free to play, which blew my mind back then after I didn't get to play UO due to 14 years old me not having a CC.
What (specific) type of deformation are you seeing? Elastic deformation, plastic deformation, or creep?

Elastic deformation is not a time dependent property, and should be the regime in which the wheel is operating.

Plastic deformation is (also not time dependent) where you have gone beyond the yield point of the material, and have permanently changed the shape, even after unloading the part. All of the plastic deformation of wheel components should happen at build time.

Creep is when a constant load causes additional time dependent strain. There shouldn't be anything in a wheel that creeps, but it's possible that some plastics or epoxy/composites could creep.
You're missing the point. It's not the cost but the fact that it has to be purchased that becomes a barrier to development and experimentation. Having to negotiate a licence even before you get started on a project can kill it.

You have to compare it to open source. Why are so many open source projects so popular? It's not the cost, corporations don't mind paying. It's the freedom to go in whatever direction any person wants to go without restriction that produces innovative software.

The comparable model for RISC-V is Linux and Redhat (et al), and on that basis it will win like Linux won. That combined with a clean and simple design.
With the SAFE stack and SQL data providers you can go 100% F#
The other comments in this thread make it sound like it absolutely does kick in in cases like that, and that no formal accusation of ban evasion is required for it to ban you.
All of the unused pins are broken out to clearly labeled test pads on the back of the PCB (inside of the case), in fact this is what made the mod-chip easy/possible!