skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with you on all of that. The general HN sentiment towards cryptocurrency is so acutely negative. I generally don’t even bother clicking links related to it because of this issue. Its just asking for whiny diatribes about how crypto sucks and will ruin everything. It’s ironic to me how freedom loving HN can be, until it is finance related and threatening governments and banks but empowering the masses. Seems bizarre to me.

I’ll exit before the “uses too much energy” dissertations enter. I bet your stacks of bare metal severs and electric cars and hairdryers and ovens and water furnaces and electric heaters and gaming machines and four monitor dev setups are super green. Could crypto be better at using less energy? Probably. Could those other things? Yep. Is progress on efficiency being made? Well, yes, at least crypto is trying to do so with PoS etc. can’t say the same for your heavy old appliances.
As a fellow New Yorker. If you want to waste hours on a steel shit hole (really many times) of a subway, to get to work, spend too much money on overpriced shitty food, just to sit in meetings all day long, by all means.

Keep on mind that your perception of what the office life will be is not what it will be. MOST people in IT are enjoying WFH and they will NOT want to be back there in the office with you.

As others mentioned, go to meetup and find a group you can socialize with off-hours. Best thing you can do for yourself as those days are over for many, and there's never going back to full time.
http://www.pudim.com.br/

The same flan since 2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20001206203700/http://www.pudim....
All mentions of what?
Enhance your workouts with ‘invisible exercise’ and brain training
This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously. (2021)
I love the dedication on this guy, buying a dozen 2TB SSDs just to test them for FLUSH consistency.
If you use any kind of social media, you know that everyone else's kids are smarter, their house is tidier, their vacations are more interesting, and most importantly: They have absolute certainty that they're living their life right.

Whereas you have a messy house, misbehaving kids, you can't remember the last time you've been to a beach, and you're full of doubt about your own choices.

Why should it be any different at work? It's so easy to walk past someone else's desk, see them engrossed in whatever they're doing and think they're working so effectively, whereas yourself you spend 90% of the time trying to get focused and 10% in hyperbursts actually getting the work done. Kind of.

But this impostor syndrome, at work at least, is a motivator. If you're always the least smart person in the room you know you need to keep proving yourself and this drives your actual performance.
> But no amount of public outcry can ban, shut down or criminalize crypto, same as you can't ban IMAP or AES.

This is a terrible example as the US government really did ban DES for a while - at least for "export", which includes publishing on the internet.

People who say "the government can't ban X" are really badly underestimating how far governments are willing to go if you really do start disrupting the state.
Thank you. I don't think I was the only one that had reached Wordle fatigue.

Hoping not to overgeneralize, but it's a bit sad seeing so many bright minds engaged in dissecting and remixing something so plain, just because it's another hype wave for which we can all apply the specific problem solving skills we know.

The only change I'd perhaps recommend would be not hiding this thread itself.
Germany did that
If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EPTfOTC4Jw

He references the same blog, and goes into some pretty incredible detail about the history of what happened to pinball coming pre-installed on Windows.
Good morning HN,

I know we need to dramatically improve our vehicle listing page template experience as our startup shifts from beta to general release.

Its a top page on our site and we are now up to 750,000 cars listed for sale so search and filtering is becoming even more important.

Please help us shred this page w/ any negative feedback.

We are working on an update and greatly appreciate feedback from HN.

Many thanks.

Dan Jackson
CEO Driverbase
dan@driverbase.com
W0rdl3
US currency is backed by the government, a mortgage is backed by property. In my opinion, "physics and math" do not provide the same kind of underlying value as a government or real estate.
Nginx rose out of the cesspit that was Apache config files. For me it was night and day better and I love the fact Nginx is just set and forget.

That's not to say it can't improve...
Isn't that plain abuse of a law for another cause? Or were the truckers laundering money?
Yes, this reads like a user who is dead set against all typing in software and is then surprised when that works out badly. There are some real problems with UUIDs as primary keys but they fail to mention any of them (some examples: UUIDs are quite large, which make them an expensive option for large tables, v1 UUIDs don't work well for distributed databases as the timestamps cause hotspotting, etc etc).
Steam does the online marketplace right. They have reviews that aren't entirely faked or bought and paid for. They have meta critic scores on the page. Their tags are generally accurate, if something is listed as an RTS it has an RTS feel, games tend to not be tagged with popular tags that don't fit. Their guides and forums tend to have helpful information that can be easily found. Workshop makes modding as easy as click a button. The store also stays out of the way when you want it too, there aren't adds to buy more games all over your library, they don't try and charge you for faster pipes or backup space.

From the dev side they also make it easy to have a game on steam and still sell it elsewhere. Steam keys are free to generate, so you can sell for any price or anywhere, but it keeps users stuck to the steam platform.

Steam has also never not let me play a game just because some service is down. Yes it locks you out after an extended period offline, but I'm not crashing out of a game because I lost internet for a second or some DRM server crashed.
Hoarding money on exchanges is the only thing you can do with cryptocurrency aside from buying jpegs and maybe (if you're lucky) drugs.

E.g. https://www.nber.org/papers/w29396 points out that only 10% of bitcoin transactions are economically meaningful and only 2.5% do not involve an exchange.
You mean, like much of the hot businesses of Silicon Valley and their imitators?
> (and the “speaking Russian” part is kind of difficult to transfer to China and Taiwan).

Isn't the main language in Taiwan the same as in south-east mainland China? (What used to be called Cantonese, but maybe it goes by another name nowadays?)
That page was often used at Opera Software as a example and benchmark for weird and wonderful things "web designers" throw against rendering engines :D
> "DevOps" aka "let people who have never heard of Unix cobble together Docker containers

I saw a script written by a devops employee where they zeroed out all the partitions when they added a new web server.
Gender is a made-up concept with no sensible definition.

The defining quality is sex. Having children is simply more burdensome and time-consuming for women, no way around it (except artificial wombs in the distant future). I've advocated "child-bonus" before (i.e. paying companies extra when their employees get pregnant and on maternity leave), but I doubt that idea will gain any popularity.

When even in the most equal societies the sex-interest gap (which is upstream of career choice) not only persists, but increases, that is additional heavy evidence that it's influenced mainly by biology, not by society.
Yeah, this fixation with deep learning is kinda weird, given that most companies don't have vast amounts of images/text lying around and a pressing business need to understand them.

I'm a big fan of starting simple, which means linear/log regression (normally with lasso, as it does variable selection).

Then, if you can prove business value, it may make sense to start trying to use more unstructured data.
Warning: If you click on the logo at the center of the screen, music plays, which may bother others around you.
Something just short-circuited here. So, plain act of talking money from your customer is... inefficiency?
What kind of business are you thinking about? Online-only?
InstructGPT is better than Google Search
I've been looking at other jobs. I saw one for a business analyst. That seemed like a perfect fit until I was told it's really 75% project and stakeholder management. No thanks. Plus, it turns out most people in that group are Ivy League MBA holder (corporate strategy is apparently the path to the C suite).
I have at least totally given up on high-end personal computing (think your top-notch Alienware computers) and have been living with a 470S that I purchased from the company as X-hand a while ago.

I'll probably stay frugal on computing power for the rest of my life, unless forced to change.
I got downvoted by HN people for asking if something like this existed.

Thank you!
> They're creating immense value, of which, they are taking a small commission. If they were not creating immense value, the advertisers would have no need to use them.

I will just leave this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858

You fail to prove why my logic is wrong and answer your own questions instead, then on top of that make sure to sprinkle vague insults at me! I won't bother providing rebuttals to the rest of your arguments. You make sure you have a good day, moron!
Colleagues of mine in the US work a lot more hours as well. I think our effective spending power in Europe is much better just on that point as well.
A comment which shows that you apparently don't know much about the luddites, who didn't want to "revert humankind to a pre-industrial state" but were concerned about the implications of technology and in particular the question of control.

The anti-nuclear movement at its peak was already after the soft/alternative technology wave that had started at the end of the 1960s and generally wimpered out by the mid to late 1980s. Maybe you and/or the mainstream were not aware of the suggestions, but solar (hydronic and PV) was already known, small scale wind and hydro were being developed, and groups like the New Alchemists and others were busy working on concepts that would eventually translate into stuff like Passivhaus construction. The renewables success was entirely expected by people who knew about this sort of thing. The movement (such as it was) at that time (and to some extent in its modern forms too, such as Extinction Rebellion, not so well known in the USA) was much more focused on energy use reduction rather than replacement of fossil fuels outright. There were plenty of tinkerers, engineers and starry-eyed folk who shared that vision, and quite a few have been involved in "the renewables success".
(Restaurant) https://sketch.london

They used to have different website, weird and entertaining at the same time. This one somewhat follows on the tradition.
> It's also unnecessary to do so as long as your institutional processes are capable of synthesizing multiple peoples' competencies across multiple disciplines.

You clearly work at much better run companies than I do ;)
Xenomorph: A newly (Feb 2022) hatched Banking Trojan on Android
Very interesting product. It has been some time that I've been looking for tools to deal with large data without the need to learn Spark or other data processing frameworks/languages. Pandas with Terality all the way!
There's no guarantee you'd have double your salary now if you'd worked harder in your 20s. A lot of salary in tech is just location. A few years ago I nearly doubled my salary just by moving to a new city and taking on a new job there.

Also I love working for smaller companies even if they do pay less than big tech. The opportunity to work on greenfield projects and actually have meaningful input into the direction even as an IC is extremely cool to me.
A neutral, permissionless currency adds value.
Go downvote someone else, this is something people want.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440491
How many hours are there in a day? (Not 24!) What is the shape of the earth? (Neither flat nor a sphere!)

For 'answers' to these deep questions, see:

https://timecube.2enp.com/
Nice, I did that in 2014: https://wes.dev/archive/2014/

(try typing dir)
I work at one in a building filled with them in Europe. N=1 though but it refutes your claim.
My personal machine has a python script in the bacground and in addition to a host of other things (un-tarring downloaded files etc) it tries to take a photo of my face once an hour. I use some CV to detect the face & take 10 frames of video, throwing them out if there is noticeable jitter. The closest 6 face fragment frames then get merged together and saved with a timestamp, for my future use doing dumb projects (face authentication, I've created fun timelapses by sorting ~6 months of photos by similarity).

If I were doing this to someone else without their knowledge it would be dystopian, if I'm doing it to myself or with a group of friends also interested in it then it becomes no wierder than taking your temperature every hour for dumb project reasons (biological clock fourier nonsense? whee~!)
> It doesn't matter.

But that's not really true. A lot of novices are turned off riding because they use a bicycle shaped object which rides like a tractor.

Buying a light bike with good handling and a good drive train is important for taking pleasure in riding even if you're just doing a 4km commute or supermarket run.
> upload speeds for DSL and Cable have usually been only 10-20% of download speeds

Why or how is that an issue? Anybody that contributes to the seeding, however small, matters. Because files are cut into a lot of pieces, there is no competition for the "faster upload speed".

> Also the hassle with port forwarding

That, I can understand, but it's fairly easy to open a port. And if your router supports it you can enable UPnP.

I am the exact opposite of you: as I user, I absolutely love it and it has to be one of my favorite piece of technology.
Startup’s planned 5G Blackberry revival is officially dead
There is a positive feedback loop in fab progress: the more customers you have the more yield experiments you can do, the better the yields get, the more customers you get. This explains why the number of leading edge fabs is decreasing, ending up with a monopoly:

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node#Leading_edge_tr...
I also have programs that can take weeks to run, but I just leave my computer on and running in those cases. I have never trusted sleep or hibernate to properly handle those situations and I don't want to lose data. Not to mention, if I'm pausing it while its running it will take even longer to finish.

Debugging I can understand, as that's a bit of a different beast than a program that can run unattended.
PostgreSQL natively supports a UUID datatype. SQLite provides an official extension to add UUID support.

Since you asked for "SQL database" and not really "OLTP database": ClickHouse natively supports UUID and 128-bit numeric datatypes. I think by now it also supports 256-bit.
Good point.

If it hadn’t been for the honking and intimidation, I bet the party could still be going on. But the truckers imposed themselves on too many people to tolerate. They seemed to take pleasure in making Ottawa residents miserable. They had limited ability or willingness to police themselves which OWS at least tried to do.
A union could ensure equal enforcement and that contract terms aren't broken.

"we are lucky enough to have plenty of opportunities to get new jobs"

That's highly individual. I don't have many options or opportunities.
Yes, governments can try, but there will always be ways to fight it; including using sneakernet to exchange hardware wallets, instead of traceable on-blockchain transactions. Crypto is as impossible to ban as the internet at this point.
Exploring the apparent subjective experience of "seeing Wordle too frequently in Hacker News feeds" is probably a more profitable pursuit.
You can pay your taxes, fines, and court ordered debts with fiat currency. It's arguably THE MOST stable thing in a functioning society above pure barter.
I think we're talking on different wavelengths. I'm not saying disproving something is an invalid way of operating.

I'm saying it is not required of people to disprove things from the start, it is required to try and prove them.

Math and other sciences are a little different, where people enjoy taking statements and trying to disprove them, but even in that context we rarely or never consider the statement true until considerable effort has at least gone into disproving them.

That doesn't work in real life, though. You can't make claims and have them stand until someone bothers to disprove them.
>Just being asked to pay more than you’d like to?

No, I already explained above why I consider it price gouging.
Killing platforms that hide their price from consumers by spreading it out to further purchases sounds like a nice side effect of the proposed portability, yes.
I think that the motivation is of interest because we take motivation as a moral element of any crime - the killing of another person is judged more harshly when it is pre-meditated, less if just intentional, less still if accidental but reasonably foreseeable.

I think that in particular there is merit to the idea that someone that commits a crime motivated by an ideology is more dangerous, they are motivated by a belief about the world that is more durable than other circumstances in which a crime might be committed. Such a person needs to spend more time either away from society or restricted in ways that keeps society safer from them for longer.

Also we want to live in a society where visible minorities of any sort do not feel a particular fear of being targeted. Laws that make it clear that targeting is a particular moral failing send the message that society stands with those people, and that is a good thing. Doing more to protect vulnerable people in the first place is the ideal option, but increasing the punishment on the backend is at least something.

In the specific scenario you mentioned I would hope that someone attacking a disabled person because they were viewed as an easier target would also be grounds for a worse punishment. Violence motivated in such a way should be rightly viewed as far more dangerous and unacceptable than violence that is a product of a violent outburst - and I believe the law mostly works that way.

On the broader point I will say that I would love to live in the perfect world where every crime was some platonic ideal of an infraction that could be judged in some kind of void but the justice system as a whole does also need to operate in a manner consistent with the public's idea of what justice should roughly resemble. It is certainly the case that you can make the argument that hate crimes as a category are more "public relations" than real criminal law. I don't think any jurisdiction has, in the real practical application of the law, met the threshold to be considered cynical public relations. Democracies largely have human judges that do their best to be reasonable, "thoughtcrime" and modifiers to sentences for "thoughtcrime" haven't really been a thing. And once you are at the point where the judges themselves are really off the rails it won't much matter if you are quibbling about the sort of details that alarmists are getting worked up about here. I am aware of the concerns, I even share them, but the laws in question would need to be a lot more explicit to be of real concern.
The truckers seems vastly more peaceful than the people involved in CHAZ, but government should still not be able to freeze their accounts. That is just insane.
This is great.

I'd also like to point out that with switching from gas to heat pump heating/cooling you'd probably save even more on your bills and have 0 on-site carbon emissions and likely 0 off-site emissions as your electricity starts coming from non-carbon sources. Heat pumps are around 3x more efficient than the most efficient gas heating because they're just moving heat around, not creating heat.

As Saul Griffith says[0], "You can't 'efficiency' your way to 0" (meaning 0 emissions, which is what we need).

Efficiency is a great win for our bills and cutting some emissions but even if every building made their current systems more efficient, we'd still be on track for over 1.5C of warming. What we need is transformation, and most of that to electric heating/cooling/transport/cooking. And we need it fast, all across the residential and commercial economies in the next 2 decades with more in the next decade. It's going to be a war-time-like effort. Thanks for getting it started!

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/electrify
Like all fads and the ones before it (Flappy Bird, 2048, Temple Run, etc), they die and the world moves on to the next one to get addicted to.

So its unsurprising to see the attack of the clones spam, which everyone knows that it is impossible to beat the original.
I do work in software performance. The people I know who don't use exceptions work at HFT firms and in games, but in general, my point is that there's two reasons for not using exceptions:

1. performance

2. not wanting jumps or hidden control flow

Note that with exceptions you're forced to consider C++ exception guarantees for code, which can result in convoluting your code to ensure specific guarantees are met (like using swap to ensure that containers retain previous values), which often gets ignored or implemented incorrectly. Also, with exception specifications being deprecated, you have to rely on documentation or reading code to understand what exceptions might be inherent in other code.
Why? What for? I don't understand why this even has come up. Is that situation even under a persons control? The idea that everyone has bodily autonomy suggests that its not under their control.
Cyclists get pissed at drivers because they dehumanise them, threaten and murder them.

I don’t think that’s the problem that drivers have with cyclists.
I guess I also don't understand the "closing the lid to leave" behavior as well. My laptop is integrated into a desktop setup with external monitors and it only gets closed when I actually take it out of the house. Otherwise screen locking and letting the monitors go sleep is fine with me
Thanks for that. I don't understand this phenomenon when Limbo and Master Mind already exist for many years. It's getting mildly annoying.
George, I'm very interested in your product, but I can only afford such a computer every few years. If I knew that I would receive it and it would work as advertised with reasonable warranty service, I would go ahead and pre-order. But as a startup in a notoriously fragile area, it isn't clear that you can deliver.

Can you give me any information that would increase my confidence, or is this something that you would instead recommend to someone who can afford a speculative bet?