skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great, but all of this feels like it's coming 15 to 20 years too late. I worked with a guy in Berlin who had previously worked in PV energy. He predicted that unless the costs were reduced by a factor of half the price point of fossil fuels that it would go nowhere. We're addicted to cheap, no hassle sources of energy right now, and it's depressing.
Highlighting the text in any of their lists breaks the page in interesting ways, apparently due to some twitter-sharing functionality.
Have you been depressed? I can tell from experience that a depressed mind is quite active. In a bad way - constantly hurting itself with dark thoughts and hence reinforcing the bad stuff constantly.

You can't exercise depression away. At least for those situations I am familiar with.
the problem with hired help is that is severely reduces the privacy of your home because you always have someone around who is not family. depending on your culture this can be a serious dampener on things like intimacy in your relationship.

my understanding is that in india you don't even show intimacy in front of your children, so this part is very much limited to your bedroom. which means the hired help is rarely going to be a problem. in western culture intimacy is more open, and any stranger around becomes a disruption.

it is also a cost issue. i don't know about the US but hired help in europe is a lot more expensive. in germany for example you'd even have to pay for their insurance so the average middle income family simply can't afford it.
Yeah, when I started looking at them, the sales guy at a dealership directed me to where I could find an on-ramp to bomb around. (After going very slowly to get there, past the usual speed traps.)

Since then, I've moved to an island on the west coast. Roads are where the terrain allows, and nothing is straight or on a grid. Perfect!
The standard joke about libertarians is that the age of consent laws are the thing they care most about abolishing. Obviously that's a very uncharitable take, but they often aren't inconsistent about if power/knowledge imbalances are a problem; they're okay with them in both sexual matters and financial markets.
Well written article with a completely rational reason why the company would go through layoffs.

It is always hard for me to determine if the title is implying some injustice was done, or if I am just projecting some intent that isn't there. The problem with dog whistles is that once you hear them somewhere, there is nothing to stop you from hearing them everywhere.
Ferdi Is Officially Gone
I didn't claim anything about stronger economic ties between the organisational units of the States in question. I was making the exact opposite claim, that you weaken a closed state proportional to the degree of its closure by using countereconomics to erode the control it can directly exert upon its citizenry.

I absolutely agree with you that trade with dystopian hellholes that provide economic resources the rulers of those dystopian hellholes can use to continue with their strategies is counter-productive and that all trade of that kind should to the maximum degree possible, be stopped.

The kind of trade however that is enabled by peer to peer participants all over the world being directly able to trade with each other for goods and services to the extent the rulers of those dystopian hellholes cannot profit from is another thing entirely, and that is the kind of trade that blockchains can enable. That black market trade sets up competitive and progressively independent organisational units not beholden to the dystopian rulers they would otherwise be and directly compromises their economic power.

Ask a soldier in the Venezuelan army what he thinks of the regime, and then ask a Venezuelan software engineer with the skills and experience in demand that would enable him to work remotely for dozens of well paid jobs transacting in crypto all over the world the same question. I guarantee the responses you get will illustrate my point very clearly.
Can it also absorb excess heat from me?
They refunded much more than that...
Agree with this.

My children are so close to the ground they can observe things I just walk by. They are constantly pointing out to me things they find beautiful in their tiny details. Admittedly I've trained them to be highly observant but they've outdone me in a short time.
NASA solder and soldering techniques instructional film (1958)
The same way that the West won the cold war and liberated Eastern Europe: information.

My parents and grandparents would sit and listen to Radio Free Europe at night, at low volume, so the neighbors couldn't hear and turn them in (years later we found out which neighbors told on them, it was.. interesting). That's how people in communist countries heard the truth and why they eventually overthrew their governments.

If you listen to defectors what made a huge difference for them is just seeing normal life in smuggled tv shows and soap operas. Seeing hard evidence for the fact that other people live far better than they do. The government of North Korea tells people they live a great life and everywhere else is miserable.

The problem is that today, the West has a huge disinformation problem. News networks like Fox routinely lie, politicians like Trump convince their people of things that are obviously false, etc. The truth simply doesn't play as much of a role.

Russia learned this lesson too. There are fervent pro-Putin supporters out there now. This wasn't the case under communism. People generally understood that the system was garbage.
I imagine most people used something like Google Sheets during the downtime
Yes they are. Wars are funded via inflation. Bitcoin solves inflation by using computers to allow trading bottled energy online, thereby pulling the funding out from under oligarchs.
Stack Overflow tests “Trending” sort option for answers
The company I work at (Workday) does this, but it's for business / liability reasons.
In the US $200K income suffices.

Also, if prosper.com is the "club", then it's a pretty shit club. VISA provides exposure to the high yield consumer credit market and had returns that were modestly higher than prosper over the same time frame. By which I mean ~100% appreciation over 3 years vs. 5.7% per annum. And the risk profile of the equity play might even be lower; we don't know, since the distribution of defaults is not published by prosper.
Yes, my point is that reddit is an algorithm driven popularity contest that resists novelty and experimentation. Same with all social media. You can certainly post your weird art there, but the algorithm will never show it to anyone.
A lot of companies have integrations to atlassian suite which might not be easy to shift from.

Secondly, there are a lot of individual competitors to Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket but which competitor can offer all three under a single invoice? May be Microsoft, can't think of anyone else.

Also for such an extended downtime the customers are entitled to a discount or a credit note which a lot of CXOs consider in their decision making.
It's more like someone inside Coinbase owning this wallet.
Like democracy, it's the least worst compared to the alternatives. :)
Something similar exists in JIS called 幽霊文字 (ghost characters), which refers to kanji of mysterious origin with no real-world usage that somehow made its way into the JIS character set. After some investigation, most of them turns out to be mistranscriptions of kanji from old historical materials.
Ah, yes. I've never had one, but did get to go for a spin when my manager rented one to try out. My son's RX-7 is also a blast, or at least was when he had it running. <wink>
> You can also: - run for office - organize people politically

I think parallels to this are also happening in crypto networks, e.g. a user deciding to participate more directly in Eth protocol governance by sitting in on R&D and core dev calls, joining EIP discussions, using merge testnets, and generally just becoming a sort of public figure within the Eth community.

(Also, this may go back to citizenship, I cannot run for US office if I am living in another country, but crypto currencies aim to be effectively borderless internet networks.)

> The open source point is important, but any individual crypto seems very hard to change once it is in place. Feels like it assumes you can predict how it will be used and what the consequences will be. The law isn’t easy to change but there is a clearly defined abs democratic process for doing so (assuming you are in a democracy).

There is also a pretty clear process for changing ETH, and it does change often[1]. Sometimes these changes are at the protocol level, requiring consensus among core developers (different client teams, protocol engineers) and a fork. Other times the changes are at the application level, like the EIP 721 standard that many wallets and smart contracts are now adding compatibility for due to user interest.

[1] https://ethereum.org/en/history/
I am filtering out because I am tired of Marvel, marvel derivatives, anything with a main character and superpowers.

I do love international films and seeing what different cultures can create. I feel sad when they imitate the lowest that we have to offer in terms of filmmaking.
The answer is medium to large companies. Jira is a tool that can satisfy hundreds of different teams’ work management needs without having to buy dozens of different products.

The fact that it’s so feature packed and customizable is the point.

I think the complainers are not really investing the time in to change project settings to fit their needs.

My only complaint about the Atlassian suite is the performance of Jira and Confluence. The overall page load speed is too slow.
ime people pick Jira because they've used Jira and have been promoted via the peter principle to the level at which they make purchasing decisions.
The founders of this country are rolling in their graves. Every part of this story. All he did was go to another country and spread truthful information.

> "The most important feature of blockchains is that they are open. And the DPRK can't be kept out no matter what the USA or the UN says,"

This is conspiracy? Is telling someone that a gun can kill now considered conspiracy to murder, too? Is it really the stance of the US government that North Korea knew enough about cryptocurrency to hold a cryptocurrency conference, but that they wouldn’t have been capable of evading sanctions if not for this man speaking this sentence?

And while I’m at it, free citizens should not have to ask permission from the government for where they are allowed to go. In free societies, if the other country lets you in you can go.

We are not a free country. Half of a decade! Over 5% of his life, gone. Unbelievable.
Yeah, I read a book in the 1980s about how you can predict any social time series with logistic models. Maybe there is a better way to do it but I always fought with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenberg%E2%80%93Marquardt_al...

and got a fit that looked pretty good but when the expected "event" had happened it had nothing to do with reality.

When the LEI was required to trade certain derivatives in the US the registration rate for LEIs formed a nice logistic curve but when they announced "no LEI, no trade" for more common things in the US my post-hoc curve fit was totally wrong because 70% of the registrants registered at the last minute.
I've heard a lot of people pronounce it like that, but I'm pretty sure that's not correct. It's clearly the English word "wares"[1] with the S replaced with a Z, similar to "hackz" and "cheatz", which were also common in that era. I think the "wah-rez" pronunciation came from people seeing the l33tspeak and not recognizing the original word behind it.

[1] A synonym for "goods" or "products". See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wares
I'm curious what the implications would be for solar panels, or for any device that outputs excess thermal energy (like our computers). Would a solid device like this allow recapturing some of the energy that would otherwise be lost?
Yeah, if he had been willing to take this to appeal we could find the limits of these government powers. But he took the plea and is going in the slammer.
No, the Free Software Foundation has decided that the best person to be the public face of the movement, the best person to represent Free Software, is a walking media shitstorm known to creep on women and actively drive them away from participating with his behavior[0], who seems to spend an awful lot of words defending pedophiles on his blog, and who eats his toenails on camera.

That's who they think is the best leader to grow the Free Software movement.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21055792
> Sandwich bread is poured into a tin and requires no shaping.
> being essentially a cake

I don't think either of those are true - at least not an any bakery I've ever been to.

Cakes are a very specific type of baked good, made with a batter not a dough, which do not use yeast for leavening. Cakes also do not rely on gluten, and in fact limit it's formation by utilizing low protein flour.

Also, bread dough will never 'pour' unless you've gone horribly wrong.
> Is it not a good idea to spin up separate db instances for each client/company?

It depends, really. There is a trade-off in terms of software and operational complexity vs scalability/perf and isolation. And probably a bunch of other factors.

If you have separate databases for each customer, schema migrations can be staged over time. But that means your software backend needs to be able to work with different schemas concurrently. You can also benefit from resilience and isolation guarantees provided by the dbms. On the other hand, having a dbms manage lots of databases can affect perf. Linking between databases can be a minefield, especially w/r/t foreign keys and distributed transactions.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/sa...
It's more "this is our contractual obligation, if we're down more than this, then we might not charge you"
> won't be useful, won't be cost effective

> The team’s design can generate electricity from a heat source of between 1,900 to 2,400 degrees Celsius

Pretty high temperature for me, copper melts at 1800C.
>Are SLAs even real?

SLI: Some metric you use to measure a thing (e.g. uptime, latency, etc.)

SLO: Some objective you try to hit, as measured by the SLI (e.g. "99.99% of requests are processed within 3 seconds)

SLA: A promise to a customer that they will meet some SLO, and consequences if they don't. If there aren't consequences for not meeting the SLO, then measuring and tracking the metrics is a pointless exercise.

The SLA is "real" to the extent Atlassian is adhering to any listed consequences.
You need to understand problem awareness.

Your users are somewhere along the spectrum of:
Unaware <-> Problem Aware <-> Solution Aware <-> Product Aware <-> Most Aware

Where they fall on that spectrum will determine how you interact with them. Try researching "problem awareness" or "customer awareness".
My in-laws had their house blessed by their priest shortly after moving in. They do the same with their cars. Perhaps a house, properly blessed, provides the necessary protection?
Lost an EBS snapshot on AWS once. The only way to provide some assurance in this space is to make sure your data is stored in more than one physically and commercially separate location.
Parallel port was great. It's super annoying that USB-to-Parallel adapters cut corners and only transmit the bare minimum signals to print to an inkjet printer. There was a rich ecosystem of parallel port devices out there, including MIDI and SCSI adapters, even ethernet ports. But none of them work through USB adapters.
RPI is $70-110 in the United States nowadays. There has got to be a cheaper alternative that is widely available like some sort of NodeMCU?
It's definitely an idea that caught some traction, else you're in the "first they ignore you" stage.

The "fight you" stage is when people perceive it as a threat. And it already needs to be big enough to be considered a threat. Can still be a bad idea of course. We'll see.
Cuts like those work for Roblox, why not Facebook?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
It looks to me like it was scanned from print. So at a guess I wonder if this has to do with the scanner compressing the pages with JBIG2’s lossy mode and its “eh, close enough” approach to glyph tables. That is, the approach that swapped 6’s for 8’s on construction documents, among other examples.

Discussion here at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238
Today its glasses of water by the sink, tomorrow it's "you have to sanitize the car steering wheel after you drive," and eventually it's "don't get close to me if you walked by the bus stop." I feel sorry for anyone who has to endure this.
Ask HN: Is Elixir Done?
Hi all
I've been a great supporter and a fan of the Elixir language and having built huge codebases of my side projects in it, I could feel the robustness and also enjoy the general nature of FP. There were, times when things felt more difficult and challenging compared to Ruby, which was something I was very proficient at before then.

Looks like the trend for Elixir Posts and activity on this forum is in the decline now, was wondering what happened to it?! Are people moving away from it already?
Perf. Extremely powerful. Mostly for profiling and also some scenarios of debugging. Takes a fair bit of getting used to and each debugging session need more setup, compared to just a quick strace. When working with containers it’s even more complicated to setup unfortunately.
Also Make-A-Scene, which in some ways is noticeably better than DALL-E 2 (faces, editing & control of layout through semantic segmentation conditioning): https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13131#facebook
Yeah, the key is they have to be explicit about both prices ($1.79 for one) - if they just say 2 for $2.22 they have to sell one for $1.11.
> For example you can have as much debt as you like but because of inflation those debts will always be repayable

If this is true, then why is the government collecting any taxes at all? If any amount of debt is sustainable, I am livid that I have to work for the government 4 months/year.

Also, inflation is a terrible thing. It deeply widens the gap between the rich and the poor. Poor people don't have any assets. Their purchasing power evaporates while those with houses and equities greatly expand their net worth.
Gollum is presumably considered conceptually close to goblin. All of these are clearly goblins.
"Risks of using algorithms"? Clearly the Enlightenment has ended, because this is a headline that would only make sense in the age of the Inquisition.
Not even necessarily – the Sony a6300 retails around 300 bucks used, which gives you 4K30 or 2K120 video at 8bit. It’s an APS-C mirrorless with fast AF, and its low-noise performance is (although a few years out of date) excellent for its price.

And in real-life circumstances it’s better than a Google Pixel.
What do you mean wrong? That link confirms what they said.
That sounds interesting, but modern currency symbols are already fast-tracked anyway---they almost always get assigned in the next version of Unicode---and more than one currency symbols for given ISO 4217 code can exist so I don't think it would work.
A major international auxiliary language is celebrating its centennial
Did you know... that one of the major international auxiliary languages of the 20th century was released exactly 100 years ago by a Baltic German from Estonia?
Sadly, proton vpn doesn't work on netflix and co..
> Were they? I mean before the 50's you have the 40's the 40's are notable because of WW2, prior to that America was pretty isolationist.

Were we? Then how did we expand from 13 states to 50? What were the wars with mexico, spain, china, etc about? How does that explain commodore perry and his black ships in japan? Did he get lost? We had colonies from china to japan to africa to the caribbean before ww2.

The isolationist propaganda is what we are taught in school. But like most history/propaganda, if you just dig a little bit deeper, it's all nonsense. We were the greatest expansionist force in the world in the 19th and 20th century.
You're missing the point entirely. It's not as if the regulatory landscape is only decided by regulators. The fact that we have balance in regulations is because other people push back on regulators (legislators, lobbyists, etc). This is a good balancing act, that should result in reasonably optimal regulations.

But it doesn't mean the moral hazard doesn't exist.
"Bitsquatting is a form of cybersquatting which relies on bit-flip errors that occur during the process of making a DNS request. These bit-flips may occur due to factors such as faulty hardware or cosmic rays. When such an error occurs, the user requesting the domain may be directed to a website registered under a domain name similar to a legitimate domain, except with one bit flipped in their respective binary representations.

"A 2011 Black Hat paper detailed an analysis where eight legitimate domains were targeted with thirty one bitsquat domains. Over the course of one day, 3,434 requests were made to bitsquat domains." [1]

Cisco presented a paper on bitsquatting at defcon, "Examining the Bitsquatting Attack Surface". From the paper, "The conclusion is that the possibility of bitsquat attacks is more widespread than originally thought, but several techniques exist for mitigating the effects of these new attacks." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsquatting

[2] https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2021/DEF%20CON%2021%20pre...
Interesting note: Atlassian stock (NASDAQ: TEAM) is up 4% as of noon today.
Yeah, that happens sometimes, but if the second link is more suitable then the discussion eventually adapts for the better. So the only real question is which link is more suitable.

One principle I like to use is to assume readers are smart—e.g. in this case, that readers are smart enough to figure out that there are two relevant links to the comments. Of course randomness is also a factor, but it mostly all works out.
I have to second number two. Frame the approach as seeking to learn or understand something, always. You're not seeking to "do" something, because you'll end up "succeeding" or "failing". But whether or not you succeed or fail, you'll learn. So make learning the goal.
Monero fixed that a long time ago already.
TIL that moon dust apparently tastes and smells like gunpowder.

https://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/five-things-you-di...

Now you don't need to buy the moon dust, you're welcome
While kernel support is the first step, userland applications need to take advantage of the hardware for it to be useful.

e.g desktop envoronments need to care for how it interacts with touchpads, you want your wireless interface to actually be configurable.
You want sane handling of which audio device is the default, and you'd want recognicable names to select them. The list goes on for another mile.
If it's part of some combo it can fly, but if it's literally "order 4 and get charged more than ordering 1 four times" you can probably report them to the Commerce Department.
Great feedback, appreciate it!

* Noted, will make it public.

* Yup, one of my biggest fears with having a feed is the possible amount of noise in it. Planning to have another view which is solely for auctions, with filters and all.

* Messaging is also something I plan on adding. Currently the auction is anonymous at the buyer side. Once a bid is accepted, the supplier is able to see the contact details of the buyer.

* Not yet, but definitely should! Noted. :)

* Also good point. Currently there are no payments, but I agree.

* Great one.

Much much appreciated!