skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just checked, out of curiosity. A bucket at $WORK with ~4B objects / ~100TB is completely usable through the console. Keys are hierarchal, and relatively deep, so no one page on the GUI is trying to show more than a few hundred keys. If your keys are flatter, I could see how the console be unhappy.
We've seen that on average in-app surveys in general gets 30-60% response rates.
Versus link surveys typically get 5-10%.
Our in-app survey response rate can reach 70-80%, with the right placement in the user flow, and it's such a pleasant find for us.
So in general it is a few times higher just because in-app surveys are shorter, targeted and seems really relevant to the user's current context.
> Programmer responsible argued till blue in the face that his code could not have a bug because references (&) cannot be null. Of course they can.

It's undefined behavior merely to create a null reference in C++, whether or not it's used. Of course that doesn't mean you can't do it anyway ("int * p = NULL; int &x = * p;") but the bug would be in the code that created the null reference, not the code that used it, just as in Rust the bug would be in the unsafe code which created the null reference—Safe Rust code is allowed to assume that this situation will never occur.

(One side effect of this rule is that the compiler is allowed to assume that "&x == NULL" will always be false for any reference "x", so even if you attempt to check for a null reference the check can be optimized out.)
Can you explain what "interesting features that you can't get in most languages" it brings? Because in most languages, field fetching and field updates aren't novel at all...
Why do you need to keep working? Every time I feel not working, I just don't work. That ranges from taking 10 minutes break on my balcony (I work remotely) to taking the whole day off. Unless I have an urgent deadline, I just move to something relaxing.
> The collective internet "underground" knew he was a massive sex trafficker, and that he consistently engaged with the world's elite, for years. [...] but he wasn't being investigated.

Pretty sure that's been known for a long time, and that investigations (at least in name) have taken place:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#First_criminal...

What am I missing? Is it just the "pedophile island" part in particular? (Genuinely curious.)
...Changing the default fonts is definitely supported.
The main difference is that workflows are written as code in a general purpose programming language. Java, Go, Javascript/Typescript and PHP are already supported. Python and .NET are under development. AWS Step Functions are using JSON to specify workflow logic. JSON is OK for very simple scenarios, but is not adequate for the majority real business use cases. The fun fact is that Step Functions are a thin layer on top of AWS SWF which is based on the same idea as Temporal.

Here is a more detailed answer from Temporal forum: https://community.temporal.io/t/why-use-temporal-over-a-comb...
We come here not for the news, but for the comments. This kind of high quality community can't be found anywhere else, and that also applies to world/politics themes. Yes, you can read about that stuff elsewhere, but you won't find balanced views and rational arguments without ad hominem attacks. There are traces of that on HN too, but in vast majority of cases it's very civilized, opposed views are discussed and not downvoted to death. At least not as much as on other platforms.
I've been playing this for a couple weeks now and have really enjoyed it. Well done!
The author of trilema.com at some point boasted of having bought a /16 and then renting it out.

Something I don't quite understand is why IPV6 is assumed to be better, if anything sticking to IPV4 will lead to more "selective" use. Actually useful things get an IP, the rest, well, better get more useful? Wishful thinking?

Thank you,
Sorry for the late comment, but... Do you have any literature references on the combination of delimited continuations and effect systems. I would certainly be interested in some of the formalisms used to discuss the efficiency characteristics of effectful computations.
> But can you then spend anything?

Yes, of course you can.

> Because spending anything is also a decision on what is more important?

Yes, that is literally true. Or at least, it's true in a rational economic framework, which is the most common shared fiction when people are discussing these things. When a rational actor spends $X, that means they expect to receive a value of more than $X. Between two things that cost $Y, the rational actor will prefer the one with a higher net present value.

The decision that society makes about allocation of money is equivalent to a decision of how to represent the intangible portions of the value of a given investment so that the things we as a society deem important have enough money spent on them.

> But spending money on education and homelessness isn't immoral in most moral frameworks, hence the argument must be faulty.

"Giving benefits only encourages dependence on the state and discourages people from improving their own situation" is a very frequent argument from conservative types. One assumes it's made in good faith.

From upthread:

> It's a totally valid thing to wonder whether it's the best use of that money there is.

You have a particular answer to that question in your head, and that's fine. It does not invalidate the question, nor guarantee that the assumptions leading to your conclusion are universal in time or space.
Celebrating the wins! This is great news for the consumer!
> what could one use instead of a password manager

The comment you're replying to mentions "dishonest advertising", which suggests "password manager service".

I'd think using e.g. KeepassXC would be more secure (but less convenient) than this, since I manage where the password database is stored/accessed.
Oh yes, I've seen videos about Japan's approachable housing. [1]. I'm sure Korea and other Asian nations have similar approaches.

I mainly wanted to highlight a market driven approach that works with the other industries in the US as opposed to a government directed one. Albeit the government provides stimulus of some type to kick start it, like how NASA drove the privatization of Space and now we have lots of launch vehicles via different companies.

[1] https://youtu.be/iGbC5j4pG9w
I don't care what you do. I'm obviously not saying you should be forced to use it. I was just disputing this sentence:

> I've bought an app, and the developer turned it to subscription based.

A one-time payment usually doesn't cover on-going costs, to "bought an app" is a concept that doesn't apply neatly to security-related software.
The setup described in the article is local as well.
ITT: people who clearly don't use the canadian banking system.

Their websites aren't exactly known for being robust. This is a non-story.
The article describes a fully local setup, with much more open components...
"underutilizing their land but I think most places are using their land for the highest value thing it is zoned for."

In urban or higher density suburban areas, I think you're mostly right. But in lower density areas, a lot of the land is multi purpose or has few restrictions. So technically, you could build apartments or homes on land that is used as agriculture. However, there might not be demand for it in that area. Essentially, the tax-by-zoning works well in the situations where zoning is restrictive and demand is high. But in low density areas where the actual use is not well defined with a single zoning use, the value would be potentially arbitrary or inaccurate (making property tax a better measure of value).
Yes, I did but I forgot to send her notification on our Discord channel too.
SSDs and other storage drives have two layers (or more). The last layer is stable storage (= when you disconnect power no data is lost or corrupted). When you write to such a device your writes are first made in an earlier layer that is more like your computer’s main memory than actual storage (when you lose power your data is gone or corrupted). Only after time or when the cache is full an actual persistent write is made.
The seed file will go stale if you deny the system to update it. It's the first source for the entropy pool, but it's not the only source. I really have no idea how large effect the random subsystem suffers as a whole if that source is allowed to go stale.
OP is not wrong, but no Apple Appstore means no iPhones, and Android's done an awesome job of earning the 'no OS updates after 2 years' reputation and as a security focused IT guy, that just doesn't fly with me.

But I agree, Reddit suffers from a similar banhammer to participation (Reason for removal: "Cuz")
I think literally the only thing that's innovative about this company is how close they are willing to come to claiming to be a savings account when actually being a crypto fund. What's going on here is you're going to give Seashell $100, they're going to go and buy $100 of USDT and lend it to any old idiot who is stupid enough to trade crypto on margin. Then, the next time BTC crashes the idiot defaults and Seashell turns around to you and says "Sorry, that savings account you had with us technically isn't a savings account, you aren't protected from losses in any way all your money is gone". And the kicker? You're not even getting the upside!

It's innovative in they've found a way of giving you the returns of a moderately risky stock market investment whilst offering you the risk profile of playing in traffic.
Fun fact: Windows wasn't popular until it was preinstalled on popular hardware funded by a large corporation.

Back in the days when Windows was sold as an add-on to DOS, computers with hard disks would often ship with DOS pre-installed, but not Windows. Microsoft incentivized OEMs to pre-install Windows 3.0 with steep discounts starting in 1990, and it was then and only then that Windows became a worthwhile target for the bulk of developers to develop for.
Yes, though I wouldn't call it a 'big chunk'. The whole page was 500KB and it seems the Remix library code is a small piece of that (measuring in the 10s of KB).
> First we need to realize that rising home "value" just means rising prices.

Genuine value of a property often raises.

For example access to a new train station.

Access to a school that starts performing better.

Features that people want where the supply is going down.
SLOs and Symptom-Based Alerting
Ubiquiti also briefly employed the founder of Home Assistant in 2018 and paid him specifically to work on it. People speculated that they were considering releasing some sort of product built on HA, but it never materialized.

It's maybe for the better from a user/community POV, but I'm surprised there hasn't been more commercial interest. HA in its current form is still probably a bit too technical for mass market, but I would think a company could easily spruce it up a bit and instantly have a fairly strong software ecosystem and a lot of good will as long as they handled it right.
I've used many IDEs... VS Code, VS, Eclipse, etc. (and use Macs exclusively)... end of the day, I swear by any of the JetBrains offerings (IntelliJ, WebStorm, etc). They are definitely more complicated, but they really are a true "development environment". Learning all the features is just something that comes with time, but it is honestly worth it. It's awesome having a space to work in that I never have to actually leave.
Is it normal for people who move to the burbs to go back to the city?
This is it. You can take a lot of risks when you have 4 years of savings from a US-based tech company.

I expect a lot of US founders will emerge from working remotely from a LCOL area for a couple of years, and then launching with a war chest.
They've eliminated this deduction in both the UK and NZ in the past couple years, at least for individual landlords. NZ does allow it for new builds to incentivise construction of new housing.
my friend just launched Qrono, a booking API for developers -- give him feedback
Librivox is a community-supported free audio book service featuring the world's literature read by volunteers. They also have most new titles available. It is the perfect alternative to Audible.
Thanks for the feedback! Do you mean in the square itself or the possible guess words? Tried to calibrate the square itself for a good balance between challenge and reasonably common words.
> In a lot of ways, the feds hands are tied by the political dysfunction in our political branches

It's not so much that the Fed’s “hands are tied” preventing them from monetary policy they should, as a central bank, take. Rather, Congress just isn't taking fiscal policy actions that they, as the government outside of the central bank, should take, and (in some cases, especially on the Right) blaming the Fed for for their own nonfeasance.
I'm very familiar with the Fed and their mandates. To say they don't consider asset prices is simply wrong judging by history.

If they didn't care about markets, they would have ended QE abruptly, and started raising rates months ago. They only avoided doing this to prevent a market selloff. Every rational thinking person thinks it's absurd for them to be buying MBS when housing is appreciating at record levels amid an inflationary environment.

They spend a lot of time talking about market expectations, market levels in their notes.

They also have a price stability mandate that they've ignored for over a year.
> I live in a very nice neighborhood, million dollar houses. My neighbors are: a plumber, an accountant, a few programmers, an investor, a retired NASA guy. (...) All of my friends in their 40's are making at least $200K. (...) I literally don't see any poor construction workers, plumbers, electricians, nail or hair stylists.

This is one of the stupidest comments I've ever read in my many years here. You're the walking epitome of privilege and survivorship bias.

Of course you don't see any poor workers, you live among rich people. You have literally no knowledge on why others may struggle. Do you think those 99% of people worse off than you all are lazy and dumb? Really?
There have been only two Bitcoin downtime events, last one in 2013. Its uptime is 99.987%.
Is it inappropriate to say that I'm jealous your SaaS is good enough to be used by Russians for financial crime? I mean your gonna take this post down anyways right?
Indeed a degree helps, but you will be surprised

1) how many people with the unmarketable degrees work in completely different fields, and would be much better off studying in that field from the beginning

2) how much more money certain majors make. Most doctors have a net worth over a million. Most art majors - not even close.

If we want to improve the wealth inequality, we should start pushing young people to what society actually demands, not the "you can be whatever you want" nonsense.
They're probably just referring to the (historically decreasing) variance in time between blocks, nominally 10 minutes. Not an outage by any stretch but occasionally annoying. It's smoother in higher frequency blockchains.

https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-block-time-variance/
IMO, it's because it's easy to understand and upvote non-tech stories compared to actual tech discussion. Even if you're a technical person, the article may be about a niche on the opposite side of the industry from where your knowledge lies, so you can't parse whether it's brilliant or nonsense. Non-tech stories are typically much easier to form opinions over, for better and worse.
lol what a simplistic take. i have a degree in southern studies and i work in tech. i took a lot of sociology classes about gender and race, and it made me a better writer, communicator, researcher, and more compassionate as a teammate.

https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/
Of all the massive cash fires at Google (Cloud) you’re concerned about the shark photonics lab? That one might actually pay off some day with meaningful improvements in marine fiber optic cables. Given how important deep sea optics are for Google’s core business it is a negligible cost with a huge upside.
The person being interviewed has a pretty impressive background. 5 years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, 5 years ops management at Uber. Do VCs ever hire regular old software engineers in roles like this?
I watched Columbo for the first time in the past year and I *don't* think the format is well known (I was born in the 90s, so it may be a generational thing).

I want to expand on it because it's really unique and amazing.

For those who don't know, each episode opens with us seeing the crime being committed and covered up. We always know who it is, immediately.

Then in the 2nd act we're introduced to Columbo, and we observe him trying to figure out what we already know.

For all of the reasons stated in the parent article, Columbo is one of the most perfect representations of a "real smart person" in media. Another favourite of mine is Jonathan Creek
I'd just like to say "thank you" to the moderators for helping make Hacker News such an interesting site. I've been reading Hacker News for years and it's really helped me keep on top of emerging trends in technology! Sometimes I've seen tech news hit Hacker News before even the major news outlets have a chance to report. It's pretty impressive. Keep up the good work!
It's totally lame and the example is, indeed, perfectly lame. But there's a trivial way to make these good which, if you look at dang-scoldings of lame one liners, works surprisingly well for a huge number of them, not just yours:

Write the one liner and then imagine you got a moderator scolding.
Then write a comment defending your one liner from the charge of 'unsubstantiveness'. Finally, delete the one liner and post the defense.

I bet you'd almost never get scolded for these and the upvotes would be even bigger.
Sure. I mean, I'm not being pure prescriptivist here; always good to explore and mess about with things.

But if I'm getting a tad meta, I think there is generally enough of what you're doing (experts really hacking at things to push their limits) and not enough of what I think Bash/scripting could provide -- namely non-experts discovering "coding" NOT through the typical "start with a real language and do hello world" and instead through, "Here's bash; it's for stringing together other programs to do stuff."
On my machine the clone has more padding and line height, which makes it easier on the eyes
> Apple may not implement such a durable cache, that's fine it's not an enterprise device and it's a cost tradeoff.

I disagree with this - my Apple is an enterprise device. It's a Macbook Pro, issued by my employer, to do real work. I wouldn't give Apple a pass on this dimension. I get that the "Pro" label doesn't mean what it used to, but these aren't toys either.
What I mentioned in the parent comment is the top-down part of the strategy. The other side is the bottom-up leadership by example as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Someone asks you for help, you point them to a doc and ask if they still have questions (and update the doc if they unsurface any gaps). If the doc doesn't exist you quickly create it and iterate.
I work for Mojeek(.com) who have an independent index of 5 billion pages. You can count the number of search engines who maintain their own English index on one hand. Google and Bing are the obvious ones.

In the search results we offer buttons to look elsewhere, you can customise which search engines those buttons are.

These smaller engines obviously have less coverage, partly due to cost, partly due to being blocked on larger websites who whitelist their preferred UAs. It's good that there's the likes of DDG and Ecosia but ultimately they're feeding off Bing's index.

All I'd say is if people are interested in alternatives, try a search or two on the alternatives. The search engine market is huge and providing breathing space for the alternatives means people giving them a chance.
I cited multiple pieces of FLOSS that employ and benefit from fuzzing, making an example out of a Linux bug that allowed sandbox escapes that was found through fuzzing rather than source analysis.

Humans suck at finding subtle issues purely by reading source code. Running software is a more effective means to detect bugs. Once a bug has been detected, source code is really helpful to isolate and patch it.
The voters who vote for politicians to lend teenagers $100k+ with zero underwriting.
It is disappointing to see essentially red-baiting conspiracy theories at the top of a thread in hn.
In 9th grade I took first in a Science State championship competition. I didn't just win, I blew the competition away, and it changed how people approached the competition for the next 20 years. My device was ugly, large, obtuse, poor. People laughed at it. The favorite in the competition was this slick device that rumor had it was designed and manufactured by their father's engineering company. Everyone laughed, that is, until my ugly device performed like a Lambo in comparison to their Ford Pinto.

My father? A smart, but not affluent, guy who thought hard on things. He's the one that actually invented the device...but I learned a few things along the way.

Parents absolutely help children become high achievers, but it doesn't always mean it was attached to their day job. Having attentive parents is a privilege.

note: As for the device, it was just a little car powered by a weight.
It’s a lot more complicated than that with a mix of short and long term effects. It should make home ownership more desirable, but taxes don’t destroy wealth so lowering income taxes for example could largely offset any increases in rent.

Further the value of property would decrease, but the cost of empty properties would increase. That would put downward pressure on rental costs.
> any and all peaceful protesters whose rights are infringed will be receiving compensation as per the emergency act.

Interesting. This is the first I've heard of that.

Discussion starts in Part V / Section 46 at https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/FullText.html
I’m just calling it as it is and doing my part to keep this platform free of low effort dime a dozen Apple fanboy bandwagon content. That, at least, you should understand (;

You’ve been clearly downvoted and are digging your heels in ignoring facts presented in the article to make some selfish point about how you and Apple have a shared vision about the high road for the app store and everyone agrees so fuck you op. It’s impossible to have a logical discussion with an irrational person and I’ll let your downvotes be the proof of that. Good day to you, too.
Why do you care? Don't assume and ask a lawyer. Ban the user for not following TOS and should be good