skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this might have two, maybe more meanings. The first is that if the person asking you to do something won't put it in writing, then it's probably not legal and therefore you can't do it. The second is that if you haven't thought through something well enough to write it down (the problem and the solution) then you haven't thought about it long enough to have found a solution.
I was one of those ad sign kids as a teenager. It was mentally brutal. Thank God for podcasts.
also a training ground for scammers. I learned about scams when I felt into one, signing with my credentials into fake tibia site, when I though I am joining a clan. Lost 10 levels and got a red scull. I was 12.

But my cousin, learned to scam other people and got some spare cash doing that. Not that I condone that behaviour. He would befriend OTS owners and somehow get admin rights on multiple OTS servers (unofficial servers) and then sell items or levels via prepaid cards, without the knowledge of an owner. Sometimes he stole ownership of whole OTS servers and ruined them just for fun.
The timestamps kill me
Like sitting at the dining room table, and eating only after saying grace?
FTA: "Most matches represent a team of 5 vs. 5"

What? Overwatch is a 6 vs. 6 game.
Penguin Random House Demands Removal of Maus from Internet Archive's Library
As everyone knows, this was already well-documented in 1978. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsQ4CxgZ0xI&t=58s
Ha, this will surely keep us busy for a while, thanks very much for that link. Btw, I already played several of your proposed Minigames with my son (8yo), and he was instantly hooked. Nice change from the regular games he insists on playing every night before bedtime. I think both your books are really well thought out and structured. Very encouraging and helpful for amateurs like us. Thanks again!

Regarding the epub: turns out the layout of your pdfs is just fine to read on my e-reader's screen, so the epub definitely isn't crucial. I also quite like the books' clean and simple design.
Completely agree with this statement.
metabase is pretty nice, and their "x-ray" features that generates a lot of different visualisation is a clever way to get started and to have example to iterate on.
Neat project. Sorry for the off-topic question, but can you share any details about that foot pedal device? I.e. is it custom made, or something I might find on its own elsewhere? I DIYed something similar as a camera remote trigger, and it works well enough, but that simple two-pedal device would have been perfect for me.
That can be frustrating, but the kind of isolation you'd get being a young kid in a college milieu would be much worse.

The story goes that Nick the Greek introduced Albert Einstein to his gambling buddies as "Little Al from Princeton," who "controls a lot of the action around Jersey." I've always aspired to be able to move between worlds with that kind of grace.
Scope of claim mangled by headline:

> The museum said it was "one of the most significant" ancient discoveries in the UK.
Too bad we minimized them with our war on drugs. We could have done more to prevent it.
It is shorter, but only by 19 removed words and 6 removed answers. Compare for yourself:

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/main.bd4cb59c.js

https://web.archive.org/web/20220210034340id_/https://www.po...
Are you sure the link is right?
Metabase
Roads don’t come for free, and user fees are a very widely used method of paying for them.

Some of the trips brought on by induced demand is just shuffling around of economic activity that would’ve happened elsewhere.

———

You may not like that tolls can re-establish speeds on congested roads, but every solution has drawbacks, including building more free roads.
Any DNS host blocker (there are several) for Chrome ads. Youtube Vanced for youtube ads. Firefox + ublock origin for the rest
https://boingboing.net/2022/02/11/pussy-pupal-and-agora-amon... "Lynch", "slave", a series of racial slurs, etc.
To be fair, K8s has caught on even outside of GCP.

Also, while Amazon does work backwards from customers, part of them working backwards is how to translate customer requirements into a successful business. Amazon is doing this as a for profit company, not spending money on altruistic initiatives.

E.g. purely for the benefit of customers, having AWS services be multi-cloud and open source or reducing egress cost would be best.
You're assuming that satisfying demand is not a good. You're also arguing that we should wear a hair-shirt until the rapture. (If the alternatives can't compete with relatively good traffic, if they're only used when nothing else works, how good are they.)
https://basetool.io

Credentials to admin panel in one click.
Oracle SQL Developer has a data model tab.

This is very much a Java application, and appears to allow several JDBC drivers for 3rd party databases.

It's free, and is designed to compete with (or drag underwater) Quest Software's Toad.

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/sqldevel...

3rd party drivers:

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/sqldev/t...
Where is Curve25519 or ChaCha20-Poly1305 used on the massive and exhaustive scale as SHA-256 cryptocurrency mining is? SSL? According to Curve25519/Poly1305 creator's research[0] Poly1305 is already extremely high speed on chips. Software code can always be optimized to run faster and more efficient, you don't need to remake the hardware unless hardware and software operations are using billions of dollars of electricity as BTC mining is.

[0] https://cr.yp.to/mac.html
> that you should use systems that have reversible transactions.

OTH I'm pretty sure that if the mark had been using such systems years ago, he wouldn't have $100m+ worth of ETH now ; )
Yeah, it's not money laundering, it's just part of a mania. I say that as an NFT true believer.

Right now it feels like the speculation in NFTs is narrowing from a relatively broad-based buy everything phase to focus on a very limited list of "blue chip" NFTs. Those small numbers of NFTs are being pushed to higher and higher levels while that vast majority of NFTs languish with almost no trading activity.

I don't know how that ends. Sure, it's a bubble, but it may not pop in any meaningful timeframe. It's already gone way past what I feel is reasonable, so I know not to trust my judgement on how much longer it can last.

I also have to factor in envy. I passed up Bored Apes when they were quite cheap, so I'm sure that's coloring my view.
The day they moved to the NYT they removed words that could refer to the female anatomy (like "pussy"), as well as words referring to certain unpleasant concepts (e.g. slavery). They retained words referring to male genitalia (like "boner"). Make of that what you will.
I'm also curious about this.

The empirical evidence seems to point that way, a lot of people were noticing that many of the Google stuff became open source or got open source equivalents from Google (Borg/Kubernetes, Blaze/Bazel, etc.) only after a critical mass of former Google employees left Google and since they liked Google tooling started replicating it as open source software outside of Google. In some cases that open source software got traction and Google seemed to be falling behind in some areas.

Which basically tells me that in the software world, you can't really have trade secrets. I could be wrong, though.
Hahaha, I actually typo-ed Alexandra and trust me I googled that immediately. Apparently it is "Alexandria"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
The last task I want to be doing is having to migrate my Kubernetes definition files to accommodate someone's bright new idea.
>as "cool" and "hip" and "desirable"

Like redbull aka sugar?
Is this still possible? I thought the strategies for this were closed.

The general method would be to open a cash back credit card with lucrative bonuses/incentives and then figure out a way to spend money on the credit card yet have it return back to you at a lower cost than the rewards rate.

I am not aware of anyone successfully pulling off that trick at scale anymore. And even if it were possible, I believe it might cause tax headaches.

Gamging credit card sign up bonuses works well for say an international vacation or two a year, but beyond that I'm not sure it's worth the time.

Given your alias that includes the name bitcoin, I tend to believe there are still arbitrage strategies in crypto markets that would meet the goal easier. The problem with both credit card churning and crypto trading is that when the 'alpha' is shared, it's generally competed away -- so successful strategies aren't often shared.
Apple has deep pockets, but using an existing ISA gives you a lot of OSS porting and optimization work for free. They could just use RISC-V if they wanted to and still have all the flexibility they want.
It used to be an amazing game where dying was supremely painful and meant the loss of tens (or sometimes hundreds) of hours of work.

It used to also be possible to player kill in all sorts of creative ways which made the game a lot of fun. If you were clever in using game mechanics (uh traps, etc.) you could take out a much higher level with several low levels this way.

Over the years many interesting game mechanics were removed and the death penalty has also been reduced tremendously.
No worries. I'm glad you're experimenting!

For myself - and I know others respond very differently - I usually want everything in an essay to serve the overarching point. So I find fictional asides pretty distracting. There are exceptions: Imre Lakatos did it well in "Proofs and Refutations", and Douglas Adams did it well too. But it's tough to pull off!
Curious how do you browse the internet without scripts? I've heard people doing this for over a decade and even then it would render most of the internet unusable.
If Access had straightforward (ideally one-click), rock-solid tools for web deployment, it would be the killer no-code app.
> I named both the Pixsy employee who threatened me and their supervisor, who apologized but refused to answer my questions about how these threats came to be sent, and whether Pixsy was a company that made a practice out of copyleft trolling.

They did apologize and his demands were rejected because, really, it was more like a fishing expedition. He then escalated the situation because he couldn't accept their apology and thought it was part of a wider conspiracy. They responded in kind. So much drama over nothing.
Big difference between manually initiating the transaction and amount vs accidentally signing away everything because of one obscured line of code.
nor did I say being smart prevents you from being happy.
That could take a ton of time to die off and they could still pivot.

But they're the least diversified, after Facebook, agreed.
I found Game of Thrones a huge help in making sense of the world - it's always been a bunch of inbred families working out their inbred family's dramas. A good leader sees their citizenry as a valuable resource and a bad one sees them as a liability, but their goals are always in respect to the other players, not their people.

Maybe we actually had better leaders before the turn of the century, it's hard for me to be sure. But either way, the sheer arbitrariness of it all being down to humans as idiosyncratic as the people I know in my daily life made a lot more sense after I watched game of thrones.
> Talking to the NPCs at the store was also very interesting, you actually had to talk, using the chat...

Yep I remember people would form orderly queues in the shops, waiting for their turn to talk with the NPC. Not sure what happened with line cutters, but I assumed they got hunted down afterwards.
Apple has created a number of Mac compatibility layers (68K emulation, Classic, Carbon, PPC Emulation in Rosetta 1, x86 static translation in Rosetta 2) and the only one that is still around is Rosetta 2.

32-bit apps were also broken without any compatibility layer support.

The only practical way you can run Mac programs that depended on those discontinued features and compatibility layers is on an older OS: either on old hardware, on an emulator, or in a VM.

On iOS Apple hasn't really bothered with backward compatibility and is happy to break your apps every year and to offload a yearly maintenance burden onto developers. This is unfortunate because backward compatibility would have multiplicative benefit for thousands of apps and billions of iPhone users.
Your incredibly low level of trust, thankfully, is just as rare as sandwich poisoners.
For laymen, can someone who is knowledge put this into persepective ?
You can find more information here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25801500
So where does the "procrastination" come in?
> For Orchid, while I have no official/ratified title, I am "in charge of technology".
Dependency property is much slower in WinUI 3 than in WPF
This is a step on the right direction but Switzerland really has a loooooong way to go on tobacco.

I don’t think I have breathed as much secondhand smoke in the developed world as I have since moving to Switzerland.

People smoke everywhere. Basically if you can somehow see the outside, you’re outside and can smoke. That includes parkings, covered areas, train stations (I know it became illegal to smoke there not too long ago but no one seems to care). Not to mention smoking in doorways, under public or office buildings open windows, children playgrounds… hell, I see people multiple times every day smoking with a baby in one arm and a cigarette in the other hand, or dragging children along with them while smoking and have the cigarette burn in the child’s face.

Oh, and that festival in Appenzell where children (as in 7–14 years old) are encouraged to smoke. Really. Look it up, it’s a thing.

It’s really going to be tough to change it, will probably take a generation at least.
There has been significant progress over that time period. There were approximately 10,000 cases in 2007. There were 14 cases in 2021. It may take a few more years to get to zero, but that means no one will ever have to deal with this parasite ever again.
Wow. Now it is my duplicity? I colonized half the world?

Sorry, but this generalization doesn't necessarily strengthen your argument.

And just as a question: When did Germany ever use a nuclear weapon against another nation?

Because you vitriolic rant is surely targeted against the wrong populace.

Would love to know what made you think that adhominem attacking me would make me think positively about you.
Boo fuckin hoo
I wrote an app recently for macOS called Metaset: https://metaset.io/
Its simple really, they might be happy with their job, we are not.
Block this, RethinkDNS, Invizible Pro, Blokada ...
> build a world where teams can be allowed to force “perfection” over time, even with amazing levels of automation.

I'm confused, did you mean "without" instead of "with"?

Also:

> i think the interesting thing is that while you’d think that is the ideal everyone should strive for, the reality is that’s inapplicable or detrimental to run most businesses that way.

Why would you say that is?
A relevant HN discussion exploring effective learning strategies was posted ~7 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30321632

The universals about learning, which I've taken away from the discussion, is that active learning and recall is generally effective, while passive learning (e.g. re-reading) is less effective. A good research paper that covers this (which I've mentioned in that discussion) is called "Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology" [PDF]: https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/rgoldsto/courses/dunloskyimprovi...
A deepfake requires significantly more effort than just impersonating someone over text.
I love Heroku but build packs are a nightmare. Getting the right libraries installed so I can process HEIC images is frustrating. I should be able to check a box to get this kind of support.
I support regulation of big tech to protect individual privacy (i.e. surveillance marketing, long-term storage of sensitive information, re-selling of individual data to third parties), and protect competition.

There's no (in the U.S.) legal precedence to regulate "misinformation" and hate speech, not because these things are good, but because they, unlike smoking, require authorities to create sets of approved and unapproved information, . There is a precedent of governments controlling harmful information and it isn't good - thus the bar should be set way high.

I'm not sure what you mean by "everyone says that." A lot of people say these are private platforms and rebut that one can always create a competitor, for example. Certainly it's a common refrain about techie communities such as this.
Api Platform + React. That's just impossible to beat
They were complex to use and run. You have to learn many concepts which are entirely unique to that ecosystem, and are not very reusable elsewhere. I've been writing Python professionally for over a decade now and I've never come across an app built with Zope/Plane that hadn't been replaced long ago.

They're really quite clever, but they just did too much too differently.
Maybe it means that the ability to spell out the entirety of the work process is an indication of the ability to fulfill the task.
How would you be able to get rid of the organisation? So many people talk about various crypto use cases but they can almost never explain how it would work.

From land deeds to insurance to domain registration to in game assets etc etc, people have all these wonderful ideas. It would be interesting to one day have at least one of these ideas explained.
I Don't Need This: A TUI for Uninstalling Software
And they only have two models to work on.
Ronja: Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access
Funny. This exemplifies the HN community and its distaste for startups. It’s because everyone here performs total population averages. Perhaps it’s likely that most HN members do behave as a total population average.

I am grateful for this insight.
On one side, we have a company using a shady business model, trying to pick a fight with a notorious internet personality. Sounds like a bad use of their time, but if they were looking for visibility, well, they found it.

On the other side, we have an internet personality making a fuss out of trollish email he could safely answer with a single-line reply ("put up or shut up"). Sounds like a bad use of his time, but if he was looking for (renewed) visibility, well, he got it.

And then there is me reading about this nonsensical crap. Which was definitely a bad use of my time.
That’s what I always thought about programming. So fun when you do it as a hobby and meh when you’re 10+ years into building business requirements
> Has your favorite exchange ever been audited by the SEC to confirm it is actually playing by theses rules?

Coinbase does not trade what are currently considered securities by law, so its trading operations are not subject to SEC oversight. However, Coinbase has gone through the SEC listing process for its common stock.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000162828021...

> I think it would be incredibly easy to maintain --- simply because no one ever audits their books.

"We undergo regular financial and security audits by external firms. SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II."
Yes. Anyone that's worked with accounting software knows this. There is no delete or update. It would insane to update a transaction that happened three months ago. You have to do a reverse transaction.

Actually, MediaWiki works the same way. You can see the history.
Didn’t republicans do something similar with a sales tax holiday a few years ago?

Watching Americas become third world people since we immigrated here in 1989 has been really sad.
After 20 years the U.S. Army shuts down recruitment video game America's Army
Lots of variables in your question.

For simple stuff I am a big believer in building backends with tools like Strapi, it's hard to beat for MVP

For more customized stuff I do believe Rails is still the safest choice in terms of ease of use, docs, learning resources, community, available libraries and integrations, etc. etc. Close 2nd/3rd probably something like Django or Express.js based stuff.

For more complex stuff my weapon of choice is Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView - hard to beat for actual web projects that need to handle some traffic. I am actually close to believing that there's probably nothing better suited for web projects than Erlang BEAM.
Go back to where you came from if you don't like it.
I'd like generators too. You'll notice that yield is reserved (although of course unlike C++ Rust actually can just take new keywords anyway, because it has a way to spell identifiers that are now keywords) so one day Rust will likely have generators.

But you can't have one way to do macros unless that way is proc macros or you're willing to give up on the power of proc macros. The proc macro is just much too powerful (and thus dangerous) to give people something else and have it be satisfactory.

And I don't think auto-clone is a good idea. That's a potentially expensive operation, it's worth taking the time to admit to yourself that you are choosing to pay that price when you use it. This also means when you forgot that you'd need a clone you're reminded there and then (by the resulting diagnostics) to make the decision, whereas with auto-clone in those cases it just mysteriously has worse performance than you expected (because there's a silent clone)
> A traditional FOSS project is not limited in this way. The developers often just start a new major version and overhaul everything.

And regular users hate this.

Jamie Zawinski describes this funnily, eloquently and also offensively:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

> This is, I think, the most common way for my bug reports to open source software projects to ever become closed. I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch -- and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version.

But he's right, and that's why:

* regular application developers who don't care about ideology

* and mass market users

hate desktop Linux.
Oh, hmm. Perhaps the list has been changed multiple times? It was originally 12972 words (see https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/) and was 10638 words as of yesterday. Anyway, some of the words that have been removed are slurs/profanity.
Real shame that someone who's own web-site [0] has the strap-line "No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period." publishes on Medium which imposes tracking on readers with no option to opt-out and will not display the simple article text without support of 44 active scripts!

[0] https://pluralistic.net/
Wow. You're all over the place with this comment dude.

> "Every one of my friends who has a BMW would agree they care about appearences and are a bit of a dbag, I have about 10..."

I would seriously reconsider who is the dbag among your 10 BMW friends. The people that care about what car someone drives are the ones venting about their buddies spending money on tires and quarts of oil online. Unless I missed the part where they made fun of your self-described "cute" Mini Cooper. Some people like quick cars, or cars that look nice.
I don’t think that’s a good escape. I tried owning my business and I hated it 10x more than being just a engineer. Instead of spending 70% of my hours doing what I like it became more like 30%
It depends on why they have an operation loss. If they’re leasing the trademark from a Cayman island shell corporation, then that would be noteworthy.