skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you said is kind of complicated way of saying what I do.

Player client sends simple commands to the server. Server validates the command and updates game state.

The server then just simply listens for other clients to request the state of the world, at which point it sends a compete blob of data that includes everything that client can see!

The player can then interpret that data and send new commands as required.

My games are basically turn based so I don't need to poll the server constantly, just at the start of your turn and after every action.
This administration seems to have had it out for Musk, or at least Tesla by constantly promoting Ford and GM as "leaders" in the EV industry for some reason, well before Musk started getting more politically vocal.

That unfair favoritism of established companies over Tesla is more likely than not what's motivated him raising his voice.

But also, not everyone in the government is this petty or stupid. The military in particular is keenly away of the potential strategic advantage Starship opens up to them that no other organization is anywhere close to being able to offer. And it would be absurdly dumb for this government to hamstring SpaceX over petty political grievances and risk giving China time to close the gap.
You know, I think that is not toxic, and I would argue it is not smart or dumb ( so to speak ) as the author tries to put it.

It is simply youth and inexperience, or age and wisdom depending on the situation and how you view it.

And that is a problem in online discussion because I dont know people's age. ( And that is going to get drawn into ageism discussions but let's ignore that for now ) If I know you are only 20ish. My first instinct wouldn't be try and correct you it "really" isn't working. It is to convince you to take a look. And give you directions. You cant give people answer to questions or problems they have. They have to figure it out the answer themselves. The experience of real learning.

And online discussions misses a lot of these context. Or at least very hard to do it correctly.

You should, in most cases grown out of it in your 30s, or about 10 years after you start working in the society. And laugh about the stupidity of it in your 40s or 50s.

My biggest concern is somehow there are increasingly number of people, especially in tech ( I have no idea why ) that dont grown out of it.
>But the CPI is fairly accurate, and those who calculate it are doing their best

Completely disagree.

>Also: as part of my job I can check prices in a major sector of the retail industry

That is probably the problem.

>clothes and software

Clothes = imported from countries we export inflation to. Software = ~0 cost to duplicate.

Inflation doesnt hit the whole population equally or at the same time, and it doesnt hit all products uniformly.

The items/services we all want/need, that are scarce, and can't be imported from our foreign "slaves", are where you will find it concentrated. Healthcare, housing, university, etc...

My earlier observation 50%/10y, 50%/5y is closer to reality for the vast majority of the population.

How much did housing go up in price in the last 10-12 years (300%? 400%?)?

Remember when house prices went up 20-30% in a 6 month period of 2021? Not inflation?
I agree in general. I disagree with this one bit:

> It seems self-evident that the Republican Party — more a celebrity fan club than a political organization at this point — would, if left to its own devices, destroy the foundation of the republic.

This does a tremendous dis-service to the Republicans (including Mike Pence!) who refused to go along with Trump's lies and machinations. There were far too few of them, but they were there, and it really mattered that they were there.

Though I guess if you take the party as a whole, the statement may be accurate, or at least may have been so a year ago.

But I thought this was an interesting insight:

> In their zeal to beat back Trumpism, the loudest Democratic groups have transformed into its Bizarro World imitators.

There is some symmetry there that I hadn't noticed.
Oh, snap. I am a longtime Linode customer.
Somehow I fell disturbed by this news. Is there a valuable alternative out there? Just in case something happens with pricing or other things.
You know what I mean.
I found Airflow to be extremely buggy when I started deploying it for use with a small/medium sized team. Did anybody else have a similar impression, or has it gotten better with later versions?
> He really has no idea what acting natural is, his whole life really is just tied up in "They just give it to me, the dumb f----". Regardless of how much power/money he has, that feels sad.

I've never really thought about about it in quite that way before, but there is a weird way in which Zuckerberg comes off as genuinely tragic character. Which is really odd, him being a wildly successful billionaire and all.
One of the most interesting things about hardware vs software is the barrier to entry.

Hardware intellectual property has an insane number of working parts and "factors" (electrical resistance, photo-lithography, metal layers, silicon is amazing) all have to be solved.

Software by contrast, follows the open source model. All those things you mentioned, are being done by people and academics in their space time on the internet. You're essentially assembling pre-configured tools

Hardware is more difficult, because the laws of physics are FAR harder to account for, than tying together APIs. Because APIs are after all, designed for humans to be able to understand and configure.

Software is also complex, but the good people in FOSS have already assembled their shit for free and are giving it to you.

Additionally, basically no hardware IP and blueprints are open sourced. Because of the free flow of goods (and not services), someone in an IP disrespectful country will clone you and sell your goods internationally. You have basically no resource to pursue that individual.

Launching an IP disrespecting internet business at scale however? That is almost impossible. As soon as your IP disrespecting competitor gets going, you can hamstring them.

Hence for hardware, create a develop, release, iterate cycle, and keeping the money flowing, you essentially need to employ a LOT of people to get your startup going.

Hence VS fund about 10 SaaS startups per hardware one.

Mostly I was talking about SaaS with the "make your first two engineering hires like this" guide. Clearly for photo-lithography with silicon on leading edge nodes, you just cannot do that.
I'm not too familiar with the use of dbt but what was the reason you chose to have a single dbt node rather than translating the dependencies into an airflow dag?
Looks like a good paper, but transistors have gotten quite a bit smaller since 2009, and voltages have gotten lower as well. So the energy required to flip a bit has shrunk quite a bit since 2009.
Might want to mention why it's awful then. It's much easier to manipulate for one.
If this is true then there are two different ways to be unconscious.
> antenna-blockchain systems

And earlier:

>>> GPS

So is this the Charlie Stross blockchain scheme?
I love the PIOs, it's such a great idea. I've only used one to emulate a 4021 shift register being clocked at 100 kHz, which is light work compared to what they're capable of, but still something an Arduino struggles to keep up with.
fwiw I use solution #3: the Brave browser, set to Brave search. So that option is not unrealistic now.
I really appreciate this comment. The $1M house I bought last year at 2.75% (now supposedly valued $1.1M) might go down to $600-700k if we have some kind of major correction, but it's in a desirable area and never going to zero. I'm prepared for it to drop, but over the long term I expect to be fine. My house is a place to live for the long term, not something I'm looking to day trade. The only day I care what it's "worth" is the day I need to sell it. Thinking of your primary residence as a speculative investment seems so strange to me.

If you buy something that is comfortably affordable for you now where you're willing to stay for the long term, with a fixed rate loan, I don't see the benefit of waiting until the peak comes. I'd rather be building equity than paying rent waiting for the market to peak. People have been predicting another crash every year for the last decade, and I'm sure it will go down again at some point, but I wouldn't plan my life around anybody's ability to call the top accurately. Just buy what you can afford and get on with your life.
Speaking as an enthusiast, it does seem like there will be a shift from certain drugs being manufactured by a pharmaceuticals producer to self-manufacture from mRNA sequence delivery. I wonder what it means for pharmaceutical companies that have IP for, say insulin, but someone else claims control of the mRNA code that triggers it's production?
This is from 2007! Still somewhat relevant though.
Isn't most speculative investment in the end a Ponzi scheme?
Thanks heaps! Will post the outcome here just in case anyone else is trying to make opensearch work on Chrome on iOS once we figure it out!
> Just sell before the line goes down and they’re going to be rich!

This is generally known as the greater fool theory.
Not exactly a searing rebuttal.
I’m not optimistic, but will keep using Linode until proven otherwise. I can’t think of a single acquisition like this that has ever ended well (from a customer perspective). But there’s a first time for everything, and if anyone can do it it’s Linode.
Paul Graham advises otherwise:

http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/safe.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html

Here's a VC, whose main driving force is the rate of company growth, telling people that they benefit from being nicer.

I believe Sturgeon's Law applies to companies as well. The average programmer is pretty incompetent and paid terribly, but often not within our social groups. Most CEOs you have access to would probably not be hired by a good company; the good ones are likely outside our social circle.
It is a silly idea. There's pretty good evidence it's false. Your immune system might benefit from some types of stimulation, but those are from:

1) Parasites

2) Generic (as opposed to human) bacteria

3) Mild, latent infections which co-evolved with humans

The problem is that most diseases like colds, flus, smallpox, measles, etc. are relatively recent in evolutionary terms. They rose with the rise of civilizations. In hunter-gatherer times, things like colds didn't exist.
Yeah, the star registry comparison is common, and a good explanation of how NFTs work. I'm more trying to explain how their price works, and what forces drive their increases.

Bitcoins' price increase is driven by scarcity and speculation. NFTs' price increase is driven partly by speculation, but also by the appearance of speculation, a series of wash trades of increasing value that seem to outsiders to be actual people buying the item for increasing prices. The buyer doesn't know that those were all one person trading with themselves, so they expect that, even if they can't sell for a profit, they can still sell for a minor loss. Then, once they buy it, one of two things can happen: 1. They ride off the hype wave from the original seller, and build it up some more themselves, then find a bigger fool to flip the NFT to; or 2. They keep it a while, the hype wave dies down, and if they ever look to sell it they'll find the real level of demand is way below what they were expecting. Either way, the house gets its cut. It's all a gold-brick scam.
India is quite as expat-friendly as Thailand or Vietnam. India is crowded. Cities where you'd find other expats are usually very expensive already.

All that said, India has a niche that can only be surpassed by China - road tripping on diverse terrains. Done by lots of retired expats from Thailand and Vietnam.
>I'm very disappointed at all the negativity here.

Really? I'm not.

Also, it's not "negativity." It's realism. When human-scale firms like Linode get acquired by massive companies, they lose their way. The things that made them good -- excellent support, understandable product lines, etc -- vanish in the name of integration with the mothership. It's happened over and over in tech, including and especially in hosting/VPS providers.

The press release is borderline offensive in its "nothing will change" babble. Obviously nothing will change TOMORROW, but within 24 to 36 months Akamai will have ruined every good thing about Linode.

It's nice the founders got a payday, but everyone who relies on Linode's current responsiveness should be looking for an alternative provider immediately. It's irrational to expect this will pan out any differently than every other time a massive leviathan absorbed a beloved small player.

>But that said, we are missing a lot of details.

There are no details that will change any of the above.
Wouldn't doubt it Musk did it himself
Governments can put a blockchain account/UTXO on a sanctions list and make it a crime to accept payments directly or indirectly funded from that account.

To my knowledge, this hasn't happened yet, but I strongly suspect that it's only a question of time. Embargoes/sanction lists are one of the most powerful mechanisms of law enforcement for governments – I doubt that they will continue to let cryptocurrencies undermine that for too long.
If that's the entire problem, then why not make these forums read-only by default (while still keeping them publicly viewable) and hand out invite links as in Discord?

Lobste.rs, for instance, has an interesting "invite tree" concept where your reputation is bound to people you've invited and who they've invited and so on.
Stigma... stigma... yeah, try using a flip phone... or anything other than an android or iphone smart phone XDXDXD

No buddy likes my webkit OS anymore
Ah yes, I have that book and have read it and tbh it did help me identify power plays around and against me.

I should reread it since it’s been a few years.
I 100% agree.

I don't think I'd like the culture in one of his companies (I like my life outside of work too much), but I agree. So many of our tech projects at big companies and government projects have been taken over by business/bureaucrat folks making them into job factories, not product factories. I've seen this in aerospace, medical, and other areas too.
Vultr is my pick.
It's often said that the Analytical Engine was before its time
The moderate Republican is functionally extinct. They've been stripped of party positions like Cheney, died like McCain, or retired to "spend more time with family". Romney might be the only one left?

Who do you think would really win the Republican nomination? Charlie Baker or DeSantis?
Some Go generic functions significantly slower, fix in go1.19
That's just meaningless noise. Not even Aker probably believes this acquisition will go any differently than any other big-swallows-little deal.

1. In the short term, it's probably the same.

2. In the medium term, things start to get weird.

3. By the time Aker exits, Linode probably only exists as a brand. Everything special about it will be gone. Support will be offshore and terrible.
Have you looked into stereo cameras already in the market? Labforge has some cool 4K options that can also be run at lower resolutions and faster speeds.
Wikipedia's expenses go up year after year seemingly needlessly. It is making revenues far and above what it needs to maintain the project, but its expenses seem to go up each year anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CANCER
I wouldn’t worry about the word games. The person who accused you of toxicity seems just to be looking for an easy target to attack. The other commenters are simply rationalizing lazy, snarky misbehavior.
Ten years ago I was following many search query by Facebook (looking for an event, a place, a business ecc). That was not implied that google was going to die but:
1 - I know before searching which content source was the best to answer my quest.
2 - Google was (and it still now) the best engine into insert my contestualized query and reach quikly the right content. Far better than the internal website of the content source (facebook yesterday, reddit today)
Not if you hate it and want to return it. In fact there’s a calculation to be made - what percentage of people return or dislike their drill? Because that subset of the population is probably more likely to be looking to buy one than any other.

A return rate of say 1% may lead to more people looking to buy a drill who have just bought one in the last week than people looking to buy their first drill.
I'm going to start looking, for sure. Just assume Akamai will ruin Linode within 24-36 months and plan accordingly.
Issues with Newegg returns have only been an issue since... well, forever. Especially the bit about stonewalling customers until the issue appears in a public forum, and then suddenly backpedaling. I've avoided them since 2012 or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108456
Yet it was so much faster than the cassette drive!
You can "unbundle" Airflow into different components. What is it called when you take one thing and break it into many pieces? Distributed (sometimes decentralized) computing. What do you get when you take a single system and distribute/decentralize it? Complexity. And what's the best way to simplify complexity? Consolidate the complexity into one system.

The Circle of Computing Complexity.
The same thing it would do if stolen physical cash turns out to have burned up in a fire or lost at the bottom of the ocean.
We'll see. I was pretty sold on the transitory belief earlier, and while I believe there are transitory components, like car prices, I expect core/wage inflation to continue.

We had an almost 9% annualized wage gain last month using the MoM numbers. Unemployment is too low right now for core inflation pressures to abate, unless we have a recession or similar drop off in employment IMO. I think a lot of these core economic principles were forgotten due to how high unemployment went after GFC and how long it took to reach full employment once again.

It looks to me like we've entered a wage price spiral... but certainly it could play out in a number of ways. Perhaps the Fed will use falling nominal CPI YoY numbers to hide the structural inflation that has developed. That could keep rates artificially suppressed for another year, if they're able to convince markets of it.

Due to base effects, CPI is likely to peak either in Feb or March. But it would be premature to extrapolate a fall from 7 to 6%, for example, as evidence that structural inflation hasn't taken hold.

I expect inflation to persist around 4-5% longer term, absent intervention by the Fed... which still brings us to 6-7% mortgage rates.
> Ethereum itself clearly is a secure blockchain given the fact that it has not been exploited directly ever, as far as I am aware.

Oh, so it can only be exploited indirectly. Yeah, wow, that makes it oh-so-secure.
cors never protected against csrf because you could just have a form that gets submitted via js. that worked for ALL post requests and it works in modern browsers as well and most csrf attackes used forms.
I don't like being on camera and I'd wager many (if not most) people don't. We do it because we have to, not because we want to.

And I don't have to because I don't work with clients or take roles in which me being on camera for more than 5 minutes during the entire duration of the role is a requirement.

Between voice and screen sharing, we can handle all business without monitoring each other's 2-dimensional faces.
Thanks! I don't want to distract from the main topic too much but would love to chat with you if you're open to it. There's a thread below with @neffity and I made some changes (trying to get Chrome on iOS to use OpenSearch) and broke that for a little. Update is just deploying now. I sincerely appreciate the feedback and you having a look too! :)
Yeah but this is backed by Google(TM) so grandmas will be okay with you installing it.
Very true. Fortunately I don't think most moderators want to see their community destroyed. That's exactly what would happen if they started taking money. As a group, people will catch on fast and either force the moderator to step down or just leave for a new subreddit.
Metastasized
You've clearly never experienced their Fremont datacenter.
Show HN: A pageview counter using the AWS free tier, Postgres, Node and React
I tried to deploy my favourite stack (Postgres, Node and React) on the AWS free tier using CDK and it turned out to be quite hard.
That would be the most epic deadpan of all time.
There is no lower bound for reportable personal data breaches:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-33-gdpr/
> Not by themselves. They have to bump into other particles to interact.

Not necessarily. There is a very small, but nonzero, probability for photon scattering (due, heuristically, to the small but nonzero probability for photons to become virtual electron-positron pairs). The probability is small, but it is nonzero, and that is sufficient to invalidate your claim.

> Photons in motion do not experience time

This is not correct. A correct statement would be that the concept of "proper time" does not apply to massless objects (objects that move on null worldlines) at all (it's mathematically ill-defined). But that does not mean there are not distinct events on a photon's worldline and that things cannot happen at those events even if the photon is moving by itself.
Okay, so it does include rentals and the number seem pretty normal - the ratio of units to households will always stay close to 1.

And yes, the housing is fungible to an extent: the dearth of SFHs cause the price of SFHs to rocket and pushes the rest of the market up as the people who are priced out of SFHs can as well go and buy a condo or a townhouse.
According to Archive.org [1], it costs roughly $2.00 per GB for perpetual hosting.

ARWeave is meant to do this: Permanent hosting on web3, with the benefit of persistent URIs (i.e. you don't need to rely on DNS for name resolution).

[1] https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360014755952-Arch...
It's not watered down. It's a person nonchalantly talking about killing homeless people as a viable solution to homelessness. The way you've edited my reply completely misrepresents what I said, to make it look like I've somehow changed the meaning. I followed up to give more specific language, not to change the meaning.

This kind of comment isn't out of the ordinary on this site, so I'm not going to spend a few hours tracking down the specific post to prove it. Just wait for a similar topic, and you'll see similar posts.
This is a really interesting approach for managing secret state. Another life ago I implemented a rule-based version of everyone's favorite collectible card game, and it was P2P (so each client ran the full rules engine and synchronized the initial random seed and the each player's actions). I could never figure out a good way of limiting cheating by peaking at either your own deck or the opponents. I looked into commutative encryption and mental poker, but at that point my interest in the project fizzled and I stopped working on it. This approach would work for keeping randomness in the game, and homomorphic encryption could be used to hide the contents of the opponent's deck.
It seems like the rates mentioned are relative to population. Did I miss in the PDF if there is an estimate for the rate of hospitalization compared to the rate of infection? Should the presumption be that the increase in the hospitalization is due to the increase in the total number of infections?
You can't stop me from calling them Fookers.
Yeah, you exactly get it. I wish more people did. It’s simple probability theory, but most never learn that.

This is especially tragic in the US, where an arrest can mean months or years in jail awaiting trial, and jail often means rape or maiming by other prisoners or guards. So the penalty for reporting your rape to the police is increased probability of being raped and abused by the state in the future.