skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think NFTs are dumb for selling gifs, but might be part of a big disruption in this industry.

Lots of details to be worked out and proven, but roughly here goes.

A venue sets up a smart contract for a ticket that customers can buy. If it’s later sold by their customers, the contract can be setup where part of the profit is contractually obligated to be transferred to the venue.

This NFT arrangement has some small benefits like eliminating the market for fake tickets, but more importantly, allows venues to capitalize on the secondary market.

If a ticket to some concert is in crazy demand and goes to 10K per ticket, then the venue profits further from that secondary market without having to take the PR hit of charging people obscene prices.
But.... if you were to train a model on the simulator of the game, you would expect it to pick up on the rules programmed into the simulator.

This is really no different than it picking on the rules embedded in the data gathering of real world data. Any implicit and hidden decisions in that space would be expected to find their ways into the ML.
Honestly most bad startup organizational or engineering decisions I've seen were due to focusing on personal pet peeves and hatreds rather than logic or risk understanding. So I try to not do that.
Gnarly. Radical.
Wouldn't that be possible to build packages definitions instead?
Isn't that what Guix is doing?
Generally rehabilitating beliefs is associated with authoritarian regimes (reeducation camps) or abuse (claiming to cure innate characteristics that others find inconvenient like sexuality or disability)
Not to diminish the very cool work of the author - I'd bet you $1,000,000 you could understand this work with 3 years of dedicated study or 10 years of passionate part-time study.
When they offer you to pay for support and hosting it for you.
Yeah search, editor…I use notion but don’t enjoy it (just dread the idea of changing).

Ever read a web page that was actually a notion doc? You can’t even scroll to the next page with the space bar. Someone had to go to extra work to break something that’s been a reading convention since the 1960s.
A few reasons (caveat: this was all in early 2020):
1) We kinda got forced into it since most of our customers were using it.
2) GSuite kept annoying changing what was in our plan for Google Meet.
3) The video/application audio sharing and quality felt superior than zoom at the time.
Not without a warrant
Probably anecdotal but I've noticed my kids when they were babies would noticeably calm down when I rumbled my voice in the deeper tones, maybe the cavemen of old cooing the kids in situations of danger attracted more attention in a matriarcal society?, or maybe the "beat box" quality of the lower tones just helped with music, dancing
There's classical literature on this:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
RSS might be cool, but it's strategically bad for the blogger. My blog[1] stands to gain nothing from a RSS feed. It'll just be extra work.

Compared to reading on the site, then I can ask for donations or do ads. Or newsletter, where I can direct others to support me.

[1]: https://langsoul.com
Study spearheads the chemical fingerprint of Viking weapons
A lot of good answers have dealt with various individual problems.

I want to address the meta-problem:

Academia, as an institution, does not have a close connection between the factors that make it money (students paying $$$) and high quality university administration.

To put it another way, there are systemic economic or market based forces driving institutional change in academia's leadership model.

Individual deans and department heads may or may not run their faculties well. But there is no external enforcement mechanism that pushes said deans and department heads to do a good job. Much less the mushrooming number of non-academic staff in most universities. Where increasingly lay administration is absorbing 20-40% of the overall institutional budget or more, with excuses of various kinds.

The students keep coming, and keep paying. Change only happens when political will accumulates to the point that top down governance is imposed on the academic department.

Usually however, this only occurs (in an academic department) when the research output causes a drop in the university's rankings. And the time between bad leadership, and it impacting research output, is enormous.
The design looks like a crossover between the Financial Times and Increment[0] (which is published by Stripe).

[0] https://increment.com/
Not a real problem. If putting text in photos helped, people would already do it. Nobody cares about text. Sorry.
Isn't the walled garden and locked down OS/hardware supposed to prevent these things?
How is Outlook programmable? (asking) Is it still via vba or something newer?
I'm going to preempt this with anything not explicitly forbidden is allowed, lest this come off as "you holding it wrong".

Using the CLI to add/remove package is considered kind of an antipattern in nix. The correct way to write a fair bit of Nix (the language) to install and configure things. That then can be versioned, forked, etc.

There are a lot of really cool parts of Nix, but they're under a ball of rough edges.
> Suggesting that deep voices must've been under positive sexual selection pressure for men back when they weren't perceived representative for their gender.

I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time parsing this sentence.

are you saying that the deep voices in males has developed due to other sexual selection, and only now shows up as a difference?
Possibly. Suspect you’ll start seeing lots of pictograms.

“I’m the guy with 3 ducks” and in their profile pic in the background is an image of 3 ducks. Or something like that.

Could be too much effort for most to try workaround though.
Yes (https://sumi.news). My biggest pain is marketing. If I get it in front of the right people, I get new subscribers. But getting it in front of the right people is an ongoing challenge.
We have a nickname for products like JIRA: MLPOS
ML stands for Market Leading... POS speaks for itself
https://community.baserow.io/t/comparison-with-grist/249/3
Calling it open core / open source isn’t a requirement, and often it looks like it’s only done to attract engineers that want to work on OSS and as a marketing funnel for PMs that don’t expect the software to have a paid tier.

In my opinion, the differentiator is how viable the ‘open core’ product itself is by itself; I can’t speak for the thread’s product, but Redis is an example of the good side of this coin: core functionality, even that related to security and user permissions isn’t gated to their paid plugin system, while Elastic before 6.0 (IIRC) was pretty bad as application authentication wasn’t included in the open source edition. Also, Elastic and Mongo’s current SSPL license is just a workaround for not wanting to associate their respective codebases with the string ‘AGPL’ while still preventing cloud customers from running hosted versions, all in an effort to hopefully not turn away good talent/good customers that want to use “open source” software.
I worked on a tier 1 service at Amazon with over 1500 hosts in the fleet. Logs within the hour would be on the host and we would literally just grep through them, to grep through logs on a subset of the fleet or the entire fleet there was a simple utility that would ssh into multiple prod host and run grep in parallel. For logs older than an hour the logs would go gzipped into storage and the we zgrep'd though them. No centralized logging (unless you call logs being rotated off the host at end of the hour) and definitely no indexing.

Never had any problems managing outages.

Grep alone can go a long way in managing outages.
More like 24 no? 12 until it is deprecated then 12 of support.
We log >>100TB/day in splunk and get all the discounts. It’s still ridiculously expensive.

Many of the issues presented in the article ring very true. Splunk is pretty amazing for adhoc analysis/threat hunting. However, once you know what you’re looking for the value proposition drops precipitously.
anyone know what it was about skip that made it attractive to implement SQLive, put anything else in? What’s its pitch?
This is why I find the German system so civilized:

Nobody but you, the police, and the courts have access to your criminal record.

Nobody but the police has access to your arrest record.

Nobody is allowed to publish your name in relation to reports of arrests or convictions, or collect such data.

Employers can request from you a criminal record check (because you're the only one who can order one), but this is only done for the most sensitive of jobs and only for relevent offences.

You can also have most offences expunged from your record after a time.

Thus, you don't end up spending the rest of your life wearing a scarlet letter.
You are trying to associate all BLM protestors with arson and it's simply a logical leap that I don't see how anyone can make.
The data doesn't indicate that men are less horny... It indicates the opposite. Men are still incredibly horny compared to women. It's that women are less interested in dating the average man than they were before.

The childless rates (25% men vs 15% women), the amount of incels (25%+ for young men), etc. it's all much higher on the male side. This isn't because men aren't interested (an incel is involuntarily celibate) but because the women aren't.

So, doesn't really follow with your theory...
Yeah personally I hate JIRA. I have no idea why their cloud is so slow for SELECT statements with 10 items, field config incomprehensible, or features randomly churn on weekly basis. That being said we evaluated other options as a team and were not convinced that the newer tooling was worth it. Our plan B was to spin up Bugzilla since we leave the project/task management process up to each team. If anyone has seriously found something better we'd love to try it out.
I've noticed this too. Hypothesis: Nobody wants books made of atoms any more, and the few that are selling are paperbacks. Therefore hardbacks are cheaper even though they're rarer and more expensive to produce.

Just a W.A.G...
Unlikely to be Chile.
> the difficulty people have with it is that it’s functional, not that it’s nix

Not really - functional languages are ok. The problems I have are nix-specific:

- for documentation you need to read the source

- there's no debugger

- there are no sanity-checks in the system which means that some internal function deep down the stack says "attribute never_heard_about_it missing" and you have no context how it got there

- there's no type checking which results in the previous error on attribute foobar while you set attribute fobar and have no idea why things aren't working (or set {system}.{package} instead of {package}.{system})
> No, friendship alone will not do it of course, but having the right attitude will.

This is very much "power of friendship" put into different wording. It's the same thing, man. Stop saying this is normal - it's by definition exceptional. I'm not saying it can't happen. I'm saying it's hella unlikely and no one should rely on that as a mechanism because it generally doesn't work.

Also - just to let you know - never tell a woman that you are dating/married/whatever that you didn't find her physically attractive. (ever) This is how I 100% know you don't know anything about women in the USA. That woman would be bawling her eyes out as soon as you said that shit. Unbelievable that you're acting as if you're the source of all information about how to date women. JFC. Are you that out of touch with how much most women in the USA are deeply ingrained with associating their natural beauty with their own worth? Are you even remotely aware of it? If you were - you'd know that if you ever told your significant other that you grew to find her attractive but you didn't find her attractive to begin with - you'd be broken up with on the spot. That's incredibly insensitive.
Baserow (https://baserow.io/) is in Python/Django.
I'm not sure I understand what point you're making?
Intriguing idea. Would have been nice if the OP included some stats and data behind the research too. Now it is just the author's word.

I am in half the mind to forward this article to some of my colleagues in the academia but without seeing the backing data and research the article will be met with some skepticism.
Open-access publishing fees deter researchers in the global south
So in the future when animal rights are actually respected and the abuse is totally banned we'll be allowed to support them? What sort of argument is this?

Things can be right regardless of the law, history is filled with false and immoral legislation.
Fortunately this is now in a much better state - have a look at https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/basics-of-language.html

It's not perfect and I raised some issues about fragments being written from the perspective of someone who knows the system - but it's definitely good enough for learning the language.
You totally deserve to get downvoted though.

You seem to be claiming that most women stereotype you (& poorly at that. What is this "their world" B.S.?) & that being interested depends on your job and/or hobbies.

That's bullshit.

Both my job & hobbies are boring & stereotypical, but I compensate for that by being interesting in the way I communicate (like actually listening to the woman I'm speaking with) & what I choose to discuss (hint: not my job or hobbies. Probably her job and/or hobbies/interests instead).
Ex UK Post Office staff tell inquiry of stress of IT scandal
Personal testimony from some of the 700 people who were falsely accused of theft of Post Office funds between 2000 and 2014. The issues were ultimately found to be the result of bugs in a newly deployed accounting system. Posted as a reflection on the real world impact of errors in technology systems.
I don't think the Nix language requires understanding of functional programming. Overall, it's not so different from JSON. What is different is that it provides a few programming language constructs on top like variables, functions, and conditionals. This enables developers using the Nix language to properly abstract complex configurations in a comprehensible way, thus avoiding the pitfalls of writing JSON and YAML by hand.
Why is seeking dating advice for men is frowned upon ?

Women do it all the time and quickly learn the intricacies of dating at a young age. Friendship and courtship are two different beasts and I bet women would like to be able to go on great dates with men who know have at least done a minimum of research in this area.

Sure, there are many snake oil dating "gurus" out there but I think many men could genuinely benefit from _some_ form of this.
I'm not sure what I would say to him. Went down to negative three on that one, which is about par for the course here.

Imagine messaging everyone. I don't have the time and things would continue as usual regardless.
Volta Trucks raises $260M to fund electric vehicle launch
Thanks! I guess I need to learn more about Nix then :)
I have a deeper voice and in the workplace this appears to be an advantage. Hard to test it scientifically, but it seems my colleagues listen more intently when I speak than they do to others.

This could be due to other factors but I've had multiple female colleagues / contractors comment on my voice and suggest I record audiobooks (I have).
Exactly! I don't understand why modern languages can't make "print" simpler. Is it too much to ask to expose a print function in the default namespace?
As opposed to a fancy gizmo that does everything but has to be replaced every three years due to lack of support?
Your startup will probably fail because the product sucks and the founders suck. Whether you use JIRA or Trello or a sticky note on your monitor is utterly irrelevant.
Huginn does this well.

https://github.com/huginn/huginn
I don't think we disagree on anything other than whether "the sites we read on a global telecommunications network" count as "most private parts of our lives." Every page accessed is a two-way conversation between you and a stranger's property. That's pretty shifting philosophical sand to ground an argument on the privacy of those conversations in.

Why does the stranger not have the right to let a third-party know you talked to them?
grist-core is released under the Apache 2.0 license https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core#license, an OSI approved license (disclosure: I work at Grist)

Answer to a related question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30393794
You buy a house cheap. Your wages go up cause wages have been going up for a lot of industries (due to cost of housing and competition). You don't have to work as hard because your mortgage stayed the same. You can keep the same job or work less hours.

It's happening all around me in SV. Many owners who bought below $1m basically retiring early because they started making $300-500K/yr for the last few years and now are FIRE'd thanks to the incredible wage growth while they locked in a much lower COL than people who had to buy 10 years later.

Here's the fun part - we aren't expecting your standard senior IC to be making 7 figures in the next few years but that's what it'd take to be comparable to the wage growth that we've seen in SV in the last decade along with housing prices.
How relationship satisfaction changes across your lifetime
All the resources are at the edges of your infrastructure, so distributed grep makes more and more sense the larger your installation becomes. Centralized logging looks less and less economic as things expand.
> What we get from this mentality is billionaires hoarding resources

I'm always interested in this idea when it comes up because I don't understand what people think the billionaires are hoarding. For curiosity's sake could you give me a quick enumeration of the physical, real-world resources that you think the billionaires are using up? Like, do you think they have 10 million in rice hidden in a silo for a rainy day?
Ask HN: Which tools are used to generate diagrams in this article?
The post https://mattferraro.dev/posts/inverse-of-a-circle hit HN front page a few weeks ago.

Anyone here knows which tools the author is using to generate the beautiful diagrams?
Only provably correct software would prevent such things.

A walled garden could make it simpler to enforce that only software proved correct can be installed, but without the proof, it does not guarantee much,,only makes certain things less probable.

Writing provably correct software us now a rare and expensive engineering feat. Most consumer OSes have nothing of thus sort, sadly. And I mean just the limited set of system software, not third-party installable apps, of course.
So, I was the Sr. Internet Mail Administrator at the beginning of what I think most consider to be the real breakout of the Internet — 1995. I’m also co-author of the SAGE Booklet “Internet Postmaster: Duties and Responsibilities”. And I’ve been in the anti-spam community for a very long time.

One thing I’ve learned is that you simply cannot validate an e-mail address using the methods you’ve described. Far too many e-mail addresses are not actually deliverable, even if you get a “220 OK” response at that stage. Too much processing is done on the message after the envelope has been transmitted.

For a period of time, people thought that they could automate e-mail address validation (as you have described) as part of of the process of receiving an e-mail message. That is, when your server receives the envelope information, before you allow that sender to proceed any further, you call out to validate the e-mail address that they just gave you.

But there’s no actual authentication there, so you look like a spammer.

Moreover, your e-mail address validation process can be abused to do a denial-of-service attack on anyone they don’t like — just set up a bunch of spambots that all claim to be sending e-mail from victim@example.org, and then watch all those servers doing e-mail address validation just completely nuke the mail servers for example.org. That’s also called a reflection attack.

To put it simply, don’t do e-mail address validation. At least, don’t use the early part of the SMTP protocol to do it.

Instead, send them a real message. Tell them why you’re sending it. Ask for them to reply. If they don’t reply, then the e-mail address might or might not be valid, or they might just be ignoring you. Or they might have complained about your message to their mail server operators, who have then added you to a blacklist.

You won’t know for sure in those cases, but the more information you give them explaining why you’re trying to send them e-mail, the more likely you are to get a positive response. And hopefully, the less likely you are to get blacklisted.
The problem is ensuring that event has been propagated all around the world so you aren’t displaying now-private tweets. That’s why we need strong consistency.

I have spent much of my time at this company on this exact problem.
> buy a townhouse in a Brooklyn

This is not equivalent to “buy homes” — this is like saying they wait until 40 to buy a car because the Honda Civic they drove in their 20s doesn’t count, they need a BMW.
If I like to travel I am less likely to focus on "wanting places to be shitholes", that's all I meant in your quoted text
Indeed. Every single time there's some alleged BLM scandal (and there seems to be many), there is someone who assures us that it's not the "real" BLM, but the "national organization"/"local organization"/"someone using the BLM name". It's "fake" BLMs all the way down, seemingly.
Powerfull, but sloooow. I really want a faster Jetbrains IDE.
I Moved Away from Notion
I appreciate that you're trying to approach this topic scientifically but it's a giant nonsequitur to go from references about soccer team performance to dating. If there's a difference in dating experiences I don't see how you're going to uncover it with those citations.
It is most definitely a dark pattern. It's a choice, that is not a choice: the swindler's "pick a card, any card" trick. Presented in the most cynical, self-serving, and manipulative, fashion. As UX goes, it's nothing but execrable.
Oh, and if you are actually a bad actor who is asking for advice on how to get around the blacklists who should be legitimately stopping your traffic, note that I haven’t really given away much information here. EAV stopped being a legitimate tactic in the late 90s.

So, In the case that you (or a future reader) is actually a spammer, we will still get you. And it won’t take us that much longer.
>But there's no reason this requires separate authentication technology or infrastructure.

Only if you are Microsoft replacing working login system with a new one costs zero.

But as a user you have no reason to change and many reasons not to do it, especially if you experienced already issues from the Skype account migration issue and you seen the news where giants ban your account for shitty reasons , so now I might lose my MS account access if my son somehow gets banned in Minecraft.

But you will say is more beautiful from an engineering POV to have one account to rule them all, my response is that is not as easy, I might already have 2 Skype accounts, 2 Minececraft accounts and 1 MS account that I use(MS might have created some other ones behind my back), it is ugly not beautifull.

What would have been beautiful maybe would have been from those smart devs to keep the old email and password login work and move their login server to Azure ,Windows and .Net if they are allergic to whatever Mojang uses, that is beautifull when dev changes help the users or don't screw with themn, changes that help devs are just for dev ego.
This is the best reply here. Such compassion, but intelligent too. Well done!