skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the payment bits, I feel like package indexing could be a decent use of a distributed append-only public datastore.

You need a list of packages, and new versions shouldn't prevent finding older versions, so an append-only system makes sense.

You want to allow anyone to upload packages, not just a blessed list of maintainers, but need to be able to authenticate that new versions were uploaded by the same entity as the previous version, so a decentralized trust system makes some sense.

So some sort of blockchain makes sense. On the downside it's almost certainly going to be more expensive, get filled with junk packages made by "maintainers" who aren't the original authors, and cause confusion about which packages are actually trustworthy.

Like Namecoin, I think it's a viable use of a blockchain (other than the usual three of speculation, separating fools from their money, and evading laws around money). Like Namecoin, I doubt it'll end up going anywhere because the advantages of the system aren't that big compared to the disadvantages.
> Can someone else publish your work to this system and take the money?

I had the exact same question. What sort of controls will the Tea team have to add/remove packages, or modify owners. And how would this be any different from centralized package managers?
depends on how much you use youtube. its my main source of media so totally worth it for me.

music in the background at work / driving. actual videos most of my evenings, even if its just on in the background. If someone's content is exceptional to me i'll subscribe to their patreon for a couple months.

Cable would cost me what about 50 bucks a month depending on channels i wanted... so i figure i have about that to spend on entertainment elsewhere.
The Military Fashion of Starwars and Alien
You're right about the icons, they might be misleading, I'll make it more clear.
Also, your suggestion about tapping the tiles (and get more info about the result) would work well for the other tiles too (high/low nutritions, allergies etc.), very interesting hint!
Cool stuff! Would love to see a drone shot and/or time-lapse of an solar farm installation.
I don't think bond prices really matter. They do on treasuries as these are routinely bought and sold.

But consider that most banks, card companies, etc are more like retailers. They buy money at a certain price X (their funding costs) and sell it at Y (loan/card interest rates). As long as Y-X is positive, they're broadly OK.

The ultimate owners of these bonds are pensions, insurance, endowments, and other large actors who are basically price takers. They have huge piles of money to invest ($xx/xxx billion), and limits in how much risk they can take (e.g. only investment-grade debt) but beyond that, are looking for the best price offered given how much they need to invest, and matching the term (e.g. 5 years) to their portfolio needs. These people tend to hold bonds to maturity and just reinvest the proceeds when they mature. They don't sell them on the secondary market as much.
I've always been curious why we translate old passages into "thou"s and "let not"s.

This might be why modern people feel so disconnected from past people, even though we're basically identical.

I connect a lot better with:

> "Forget the future. When and if it comes, you’ll have the same resources to
draw on—the same logos"

(from Gregory Hayes translation, if I'm not mistaken)

https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Marcus-Au...
Render is a platform as a service type offering like Heroku. Folks interested in self-hosting aren't the target audience for this.
Good points about Dao vs Confucius. In our times the debate seems to be between autocracy vs. democracy.
.xyz domain? Check.

This seems to be largely the same pitch that oscoin.io / monadic.xyz / radicle.xyz had back in 2017. They must have burned, what, 10 million dollars by now? I'm really curious what the business model behind an outfit like this is...
Thanks. I updated my comment to clarify that this is about OpenJDK 11; later versions of OpenJDK apparently already include this patch.
Oh i get it now, nice!
In the UK we have another problem - land banking.

Housing developers are sitting on huge swathes of land that have planning permission (every council has a housing development plan), but by building slower, and with no real penalties for not using the land (LVT or similar) they can pad their profit margins by trickling properties onto the market.
There has to be dozens of us. I also work in the Denver Botanic Gardens, so nice.

As an aside, does anyone know what's up with the linguistic difference between Botanic and Botanical -- Gardens --... are both correct? When speaking, all my friends say "botanical gardens" but every gardens I've been to says "botanic gardens" on the placard.
The worst part is that they sabotage their good software by insisting on these bad solutions. LXD and MicroK8s for example, are distributed only as snaps - not even tarballs. LXD is actually a great software. But it's available as native package only on a few less popular distributions, and that has hurt its adoption. I wanted to try MicroK8s, but completely abandoned it due to the snap requirement.
I'm moving in to a new apartment tomorrow and it comes with this "app" to communicate with your neighbours. Of course, it's just an app and not a site. I installed it on Android emulator just to see what it's like; the entire thing is basically just a web forum, like what we had 20 years ago, except of course it's worse. You can't search (on a page with ^F, or in general), you can't adjust its tiny font size, it only runs on iOS/Android, etc.

I must sound like an old man, but I don't see it as anything other than reinventing 20-year old tech except "as an app" and shittier.

I think it's very different from the move to the web; in spite of common complaints about it on HN, it really brought cross-platform capabilities to the world. Yes, there's issues with Chrome's dominance, but have you tried running on Linux or NetBSD in 2000? It was all fun and games until someone sent you a .doc file, or until you had to do your taxes, or until you wanted to do a million other things that were "Windows-only".

With the web the only thing stopping anyone from creating a new environment that works for a lot of common every-day things is just putting in the work to implement an OS + browser. Yes, this is not easy, but also not undoable (and not as hard as sometimes claimed, IMO), and compared to proprietary protocols and formats of the 90s it's a huge improvement.

But with all this mobile stuff now we're back to proprietary protocols and formats that only work on proprietary systems. I don't think it's comparable at all. If anything, it's the reverse, and also worse than the 90s because PCs are "open" platforms where you can install any OS you want, which is not the case with the vast majority of mobile phones, and the "app store" distribution model makes it even worse.

I'm not necessarily against smartphones as a concept, but the current implementations are a huge regression in many ways.
Accommodations are available for illnesses and disability but it's worth remembering that FAANG and similar companies are highly competitive and it's "either up or out" until you're promoted to the terminal level where that's no longer required. If stress exacerbates your illness, keep that in mind.
I'm currently reading Thich Nhat Hanh's Peace Is Every Step [0]. In it he says something similar. It's not that worrying is not useful. You need to worry for sustenance, shelter. But a lot of thinking that we as modern humans do is useless. Me going over over on why I didn't get that job, or why did my colleague say or ..., you get the idea. Mindfulness can help with this a bit where if you find yourself caught in a useless thought loop, you can step back and try to figure out if you do have agency, if not, just move on.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Peace-Every-Step-Mindfulness-Everyday...
> Go ahead and run some code…

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> Edit: And to all the wonderful people who no doubt checked themselves to make sure they had expertise on the subject before they downvoted my question (!), here's some food for thought:

My original comment specifically highlights that the studies are split, but you are cherry-picking articles that support an argument you are trying to make that athletes aren’t suffering from heart inflammation.

Moreover, based on your initial question to my comment, you don’t even seem to be aware that heart inflammation isn’t necessarily going to effect performance, rather it presents potential longterm and acute risks of a negative outcome to the athletes, and you are specifically citing athlete performance as evidence athletes aren’t suffering from heart inflammation.

All things being equal it is probably better to be a young athlete with heart inflammation than to live a sedentary lifestyle and be obese with heart inflammation for purposes of health outcome, but I think you are confounding risk of having heart inflammation with risk of negative outcomes from heart inflammation. As research and studies continue it could very well be the risk of heart inflammation is in fact equal among the populace, while negative outcomes will be unequal, ultimately this is still going to drive up negative outcomes across the board.
All parts:

https://www.depesz.com/2013/04/16/explaining-the-unexplainab...

https://www.depesz.com/2013/04/27/explaining-the-unexplainab...

https://www.depesz.com/2013/05/09/explaining-the-unexplainab...

https://www.depesz.com/2013/05/19/explaining-the-unexplainab...

https://www.depesz.com/2013/05/30/explaining-the-unexplainab...

https://www.depesz.com/2021/06/20/explaining-the-unexplainab...
Though you certainly know more than I do about the subject, my understanding is that differently privileged environments can enqueue messages to each other without pipeline flushes, and general forms of that mechanism have performed better than subroutine calls on high-end systems since the early 01990s: Thinking Machines, MasPar, Tera, even RCU on modern amd64.

And specialized versions of this principle predate computers: a walkie-talkie has the privilege to listen to sounds in its environment, a privilege it only exercises when its talk button is pressed and which it does not delegate to other walkie-talkies, and the communication latency between two such walkie-talkies may be tens of nanoseconds, though audio communication doesn't really benefit from such short latencies. The latency across a SATA link is subnanosecond, which is useful, and neither end trusts the other.
One of the giant limitations for VR is physical playing space. Memory and processor can always get better, faster, and cheaper, but I don't see how available playing space is going to improve in the future.
That’s not really what a monopoly is, at least in any useful sense.

Applebees has 100% control over the food that they put on plates inside Applebees, they can ban you from bringing in outside food and beverages. But we wouldn’t say that Applebees has a monopoly on anything.

Nintendo has total control over the software that runs on their hardware. Their hardware model is similar to the model that my microwave has. People are welcome to try to DIY mod their Nintendo device the same way I can try to DIY mod my microwave, but that doesn’t mean the government ought to be putting a stop to Nintendo’s “monopoly” on how the hardware they build is built and imaged.
Can anyone speak about how VHDL compares to Verilog? does it suffer from the same flaws? how do they compare to one another.
Not at all, thanks for considering it :)
Yes, and the convenience of not needing to know how to maintain the server. You can point a person with a different type of experience at this problem.
OSX? Brew. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/openjdk

If you don't use brew to install your software, you probably should start doing so.

Windows? Chocolately. https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/openjdk
>The Fed made massive profits on its crisis-era purchases. Many were held to maturity.

The graph from multiple OPs literally say otherwise.

>Your "literally nobody else" is a multi-trillion dollar pool of buyers.

Like normally there's a multi-trillion dollar pool of buyers and the market is healthy. The fed came in when they stopped buying. That's kind of tautological.

>The Fed has been buying, selling and dollar rolling its Agency MBS portfolio virtually every quarter between the end of the financial crisis and beginning of the pandemic [2]. "Never exited" is false, particularly if you're citing the '09 assets. Even if we amend that to consider net positions, the very article this thread is attached to posits the reduction of those levels.

The balance sheet is not some spot where the government makes investments for profits. Sure they had to cycle assets but they certainly didn't exit anything.

Why did the fed not do this pre-2009. why was this only during economic disasters like covid as well? This isn't some brilliant play by the government. This is them taking on the highest risk securities and eating the cost during bad time.

If they didn't take these actions the situation would have been worse. It's good they did what they did but this was certainly not some brilliant profitable play.
Hi, love what Render are doing, the one thing holding me back from migrating to you from Heroku is Postgres “point in time” backup restore using the write ahead log. Having used it just once before with Heroku it’s indispensable. The minute you add it we will be making the move.

I know it’s on your radar but just want to give a nudge.
I did light research into a similar idea, and got stuck linking aircraft registration numbers from ADS-B to businesses. Many aircraft owned by corporations and high net worth individuals are registered to subsidiaries or holding companies. I wasn't able to follow the chain of registrations through opencorporates.com.

I probably didn't exhaust all possibilities -- wonder if this is a solved problem.
We've been using https://upstash.com/ which charges per request, but has a nice SDK that allows easy Redis connections in Cloudflare Worker & AWS Lambda environments. It's been a very nice experience so far.

Are there are any good open source libraries that use REST connections to Redis so you can use it in "serverless" environments?
So it's time to learn to compile Firefox from source, got it
Interesting, thanks for the link. I just assumed those apps wouldn't be usable on dumbphones, but I guess I should look into this a bit more.
No, we're not afraid. Even with the partners that have been a real challenge for us, there is recognition that (1) we know what we're doing and (2) we want them to succeed. It should be said that that's not by accident: we have taken a deliberate, values-based approach to partner selection (and we differentiate between partners and vendors). Specifically, we explicitly look for partners that share our value of responsibility. Indeed, we have written an RFD[0] on the shared values that we seek in a partnership that we send very early on in the relationship; if a C-level doesn't buy into shared responsibility with the fate of their customers, we will find someone who does.

[0] https://oxide.computer/blog/rfd-1-requests-for-discussion
These features can't be rolled out incrementally to users? In this day and age it seems weird for a web app to do a global go-live with something before testing it with a smaller group first.
:) Fortunately there are way fewer biters.
I took all of the known remaining propagandists + everything pro-Kremlin that showed up in youtube trending + searched for the most common pro-Kremlin speakers and topics (biolabs, "denazification", etc), then recursively looked through the recommended videos to those channels until any new channels stopped showing up. I ended up with 108 channels in total that had at least some views. So far I cannot find any more with any views, no matter how I search for them.
Far, far lower. We're so casually throwing around plans priced in the trillions these days, when just a few years ago people thought billions of dollars was a lot of money.
Loved the article. I only have one thing to add from my personal experience.

In the past, when I was dealing with severe depression, if I read this article or similar, I would've thought "this is such bullshit, wtf is this moron talking about".

Reading the article today, after being "cured" from depression by Electroconvulsive therapy, I thought it was so helpful and insightful. I was able to actually understand what the author was saying and take their words to heart.

It's crazy how depression clouds things like that, something that could be really helpful is seen as super-positive bs and unrealistic. Something that you (depressed person) could never achieve. Truly sick disease.

If you're dealing with depression right now, please keep pushing, it really really does get better :)
What do you mean by this? I can't think of a part of my life where I use photographs, where someone in a different time would have used paintings.
Pereyaslav Agreement (1654)
Usually this is because of DRM - are you trying to record Netflix?
I do not have an Android/iOS smartphone, so for me it is not even a question.
The only youtubeable device I have is Nokia 8810 (good old nokia but with 4g) and thanks God youtube reasonably considers me as an undefendable cheapster who even does not deserve to be shown any ads.
That was how they did it back in the old days though.

Q: "Ask HN: What's the Equivalent of 'Hello, World' for a Quantum Computer?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707580 [ IBM Qiskit, Microsoft Q#, Google TFQ TensorFlow Quantum, Google Cirq ([NumFOCUS,] SymPy) ]

- https://www.tensorflow.org/quantum/tutorials/hello_many_worl...

A: Set a register to zero and see how many times it reads as zero: A) in the local software simulator; and B) with just one modern day qubit register.
I thought it was going to be a Postmortem. I couldn't have been more wrong!
In general that's how it works here too, people just like to watch their VantageScore rise and fall when most non-credit card credit decisions only worry about debt. The only thing that really matters is any history of late payments, but I imagine lenders in the Netherlands also wouldn't like it if you had multiple late payments to lenders every year.
Rust Is Minimalist
That's a fair analysis. The author even admits:

> the war is not over, and that the weight of numbers still favors Russia.

Is there going to be some phase transition at some point where one or other side runs out of some critical resource like tanks or soldiers or money? What is the weakest link in their war machines, and how close is each side to having that link broken?
Have you tried an Oculus? I have vertigo too and am a graybeard and it doesn't bother me at all. They did a good job with the refresh rate. Other VR headsets do still bother me, so they did something right (at least for me) on the Oculus.
I think this page is poorly phrased given the sheer number of cryto-skeptics in the developer community. I also feel that the page more generally fails to show the benefits of tea over brew, and has a general entitled tone.

I can totally understand feeling bitter about the corporate worlds approach to use of open source software, but it's also precisely _because_ some of these tools are open source that they get traction in these environments in the first place.

I feel like a open source developer should not expert to be financially rewarded or given a fast-track ticket to career success solely because of open source contribution. However, of course there is more the development community could do to support open source initiatives.
https://outage.bingo/
"Roberta and I will be on Twitch tomorrow to talk about a new game we're working on. Our interview will be at 3pm Pacific time."

https://twitter.com/caboken/status/1506390567197896705
For me, the app works and takes a picture, but often doesn't save it. Some kind of permission issue because the phone is locked, maybe?
> do basic due diligence wrt security (lock down ssh, firewall, etc.)

This is exactly the benefit. You don't have to do any of this stuff. For example, my organisation has two developers neither of which are experts in network security or system administration. So if can outsource this work to a 3rd party provider then that's a huge benefit. The difference in cost between a $5/month DO droplet and a $10/month managed Redis instance is negligible for us.
Interesting, I had seen previous work on this and thought they’d already squeezed the available perf juice out of it. Nice to see there’s still more room for improvement on this front. And especially exposing more to userland, I definitely have use cases for that!
I refuse to pay for either NYT or WaPo subscriptions specifically because of the OpEd pages. It's one thing to encourage provocation for the purpose of social dialog, but the abject lies and violence that both publications have allowed onto their pages are inexcusable. The NYT in particular has been given this reverent status by the left that it just doesn't deserve - it isn't your paper, they don't speak for you, their goal is no different than Fox News, IE: to attract paying eyeballs.
Hey, um, I think I do know what I'm talking about :). You can see more of this historical side effort, which didn't pan out for a number of reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_magnetic_resonance_qua...
A 7 qubit QC NMR was implemented in 2001.

All these systems are just evolution of spin systems or other similar systems. The big difference with an NMR quantum computer is that it manipulates ensembles of spins.

The comment about universality of computing is that many physical processes can be used to compute things. I didn't say that qcs were universal computers.

Please try to read what i'm writing more carefully.
When did piping curl output to a shell become an acceptable installation method?
It is still probably a good idea to have the main equipment running on radiation hardened hardware, while the more unimportant stuff runs on off the shelf components.

That way at least if something goes wrong with the non-rad-hardened equipment, it could be rebooted or debugged using equipment which is rad-hardened

I'm no scientist but that's my take on the matter.
A third-party repo is the same: it's also an "Internet binary".

The AUR is slightly different in that (usually, there are some binary packages) you could in principle check the sources and build process before building it right there and then installing to the system with elevated privileges.
With real ms code, we could evaluate how much linux/open source is in there. This worldwide scam must end.
> There will never be new genres or art or music.

Do you believe that there were no genres of music born in the 20th century, or that we conveniently discovered all the genres just a few decades ago? Neither of those seems reasonable to me.
Our Redis offering is covered under the BSD-3 clause. We do not include Redis modules that need a Redis Labs license, but it isn't a problem in practice for the vast majority of Redis use cases (caching and queueing).
More details:

"Amazon Corretto, A Journey into Latency Reduction":

https://youtu.be/S4IrAZ5wT3c
Seriously, most open source projects have a relatively small number of contributors. A license that requires a small fee for commercial users over a certain size is a no-brainer. Proprietary closed-source projects are also commonly priced by customer size.

The OSI zealots will attack you for violating some vague moral values, but that’s a small price to pay I think.
> You have to... wait for it... have more debt to show that you're good at managaging debt.

It is quite a strange system to me from a non-American perspective. A US acquaintance of mine told me their parents signed them up for a credit card as a teen so they could “build credit” early on.