skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to say of Microsoft Word, "Nobody uses more than 5% of its features, but every company uses a different 5%."

The saying is apocryphal and unlikely to be accurate, but the shape of the thing its describing applies to almost every piece of enterprise software whether installed on-prem or SaaS.

And as another comment points out, at Enterprise scale you can substitute "team" or "group" for customer. Every team might use a different 5%, and unless you standardize their processes, you have to buy the product that can accomodate all of their needs.
The Golden Path for Kubernetes Networking
I really, really like Trello and am dreading the day when atlassian starts tinkering with it in any real capacity. As a content creator, it is the first workflow system I’ve ever seen that I can effectively share with my client. It’s so simple and streamlined and the fact that I’ve stuck with it despite my ADHD says a lot.

Clients add their notes to the card, I check the boxes as I hit the notes, and I move the card further right as we enter different stages of the post production process. We then have a column of every completed project, which is incredibly easy to sift through if we need to revisit something. It’s literally left to right in the workflow, it visually is telling me where we are at all times.

It’s incredibly simple and elegant. For fast turnaround, relatively stripped down content (like podcasts) there is nothing like it.
I don't understand. If you have regulation, you need people that interpret and enforce that regulation. In other words, you need trust. If your system is predicated on trust, you can dispense with the blockchain that does a lot of unnecessary busy work, and replace it by a few guys with an Excel spreadsheet or two, and regulate them. The environment will thank you.
Securities Transaction Tax (STT)
does it comply with platform policy?
No, sorry. I'm not a scientist, just summarizing the impressions I've gathered from reading folks who are.
High temperature is the point. The efficiency of heat engines depend on the temperature difference (relative to ambient). The hotter you can go, the better. (granted this thing isn’t really an “engine”, but the trend still applies)
Interestingly enough, in the olde days in the UK, you'd have boarding houses instead of apartments or condominiums, and they would often be a larger house where the householder would cook meals for the boarders.

This is probably substantially more efficient than each dwelling unit having its own kitchen, but unlikely to be desired by many these days.

College-life is often similar.
Well, Explordle is designed to be a slow paced, casual game. Hope you like it!
I bought a cheap DSLR extension tube and a $15 ring light on eBay to do macro photography of electronic components. They work much better than I expected for the price. I'm sure an expensive macro lens would be better but this setup works fine for me.
What's wrong with C++? Seems unfair to compare it with JIRA.
Would it be bad practice to append values to a GUID type of ID that would help a human recognize them? For instance, in this specific case they wanted app IDs as APP-XXXXX-XXXX-blahblah and CLOUD-XXXXX-blahblah.

I'm not looking to help their specific problems, but this is more from a general question I've thought of doing but never have done just because I'm sure I'd get laughed at for blazing my own trail
Any sort of hardware or software error seems much more likely. Computers are incredibly complex and approximations are used everywhere (in the design of the hardware, in the theory of operation). I don't think inference-based experiments or analysis on cosmic ray bit flips are appropriate.

You really need some kind of dedicated cosmic ray detector nearby as a control. If the flux of cosmic rays into the detector is orders of magnitude lower than the rate of bit errors you ascribe to cosmic rays, it's probably some hardware/software issue and not the cosmic rays.
Hmm. I would expect them to have layers of security, with one of those layers being funds in a cold wallet with serious access control around it. If I were asked to insure them, the premiums and coverage would hinge on security layers and mitigations in place to prevent loss. I don't think it's unreasonable to have funds in a cold wallet.
> For you to lose your OS image with a dedicated server only takes your HDD to die.

Only if you don't have a backup.

Why in the world do you think anyone would store their only copy of an OS image on a single server?

For systems I set up, to start with, the OS is mostly immutable, booted and updated transparently to match a master image. If it gets destroyed, we just image a new server. The applications all run in containers, based on images stored on replicated file servers. If they get destroyed, we just re-deploy on a different server (in fact, automatically redeploying is trivial).

Only the application data is unique to running servers, and that needs to be backed up just as much whether those containers run in a cloud environment or locally, and again it's trivial to have automation in place for the backup and re-deployment of that. Been there, done that many times.

> For you to lose your OS image on EC2 (where you made a snapshot of your volume in one-click) would take a lot of shitstorm to happen at AWS -- as I presume that they backup across sites.

For me to lose my data on any bare metal system I've run, multiple servers in at least two different data centres operated by at different companies would need to fail at the same time. This is not hard to set up, and it's a one of setup. You then need to test your backups, just as you need to with AWS - an untested backup is not a backup.

But your assumptions of failure scenarios is also flawed. You need to protect against e.g. disgruntled employees, hackers, bugs as well. If you rely on the same security to protect your backups as your main setup, you don't have a backup.

EC2 is great when you can justify the cost, but it does not remove the need for a proper backup policy and processes to test them.
I think if the investment story of companies was better, maybe there would be less demand for crypto in the first place? Another big appeal is that in crypto the rules (governing the crypto itself) are not changeable by humans. This eliminates a large category of manipulation by insiders (while opening the door to other problems).
Thanks :-D. So we now have an (albeit Lambda) API over an API!! This keeps getting better.

https://brc5og74x0.execute-api.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/prod...
I mean, the clinical definition of depression is a feeling of being powerless. The way they test mice for depression is by danging them by the tail- if the mouse just hangs there limply, giving up, without struggling, that's depression. Depression is really a logical coping strategy in a certain sense- when there is no hope in struggling, the smart move is to not even try, to just conserve energy and wait to be let go or be eaten.

With the world seemingly being run into the ground, climate change being completely ignored, college costs and housing costs and medical costs skyrocketing and wages stagnant, and with the world being thoroughly dominated by the boomer generation who have no incentive or desire to care at all about what teens are going through, it's easy to feel powerless. Because they are powerless. Totally powerless. They can't change anything and nobody cares about them. You'll notice that even the author of this article did not ask one single teen for their opinion on what's happening. Nobody asks them anything because nobody cares what they think.

So they just hang there.
I for one want to quit hearing about producing breathing oxygen on the Moon.

You can breathe 100% oxygen but if you do it long enough you will wind up like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0YB5r4vzVo

You are going to have to mix in a larger quantity something inert like He, Ar, N2 or SF6 to make a good breathing gas.

I've been sketching out chemical factories that you could send to a place like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Themis

and I would say it is the availability of Nitrogen that has be worrying. Also the idea that you have to go to some special asteroid to get iron is wrong I think.

https://www.space.com/moon-metal-mystery-clue-in-craters.htm...

is a recent result but astronauts brought back top-quality hematite from the moon in the Apollo era. Not only is iron a great structural material but iron and related elements have great catalytic activity for turning materials common on asteroids like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphaltite

into something useful.
Lotteries are super regulated though, it's (no matter the country) an utter nightmare, even stuff like a school's trinket raffle. The reason is a shitload of people making "easy profits" by frauding people.
if someone is using love as a tool for emotional manipulation they will be doing that already before they read the book. at best the book helps them to come up with that phrase. but not reading it won't prevent them from doing it.

on the contrary, if you both read the book together then you will both become aware that this is happening and you can do something about it.

There should be a rule, where you can learn about this and other concepts, but you are never allowed to talk about it with people you have a relationship with.

that sounds just about like the worst idea i have read in this whole thread today. it is exactly the not talking about these concepts that will enable the manipulation that you fear. to avoid manipulation you need to have this knowledge out in the open.
At the risk of sounding like an incredibly broken record:

>> I think you missed my point. To reiterate: the fact that people believe that it's not true is, ironically, a convincing justification for the accredited investor rule. I'm pointing out the irony, not defending the rule per se.

and

>>> I'm not even an avid fan of the accredited investor rule.

So, as I've stated in every single post in this thread, I'm not defending the accredited investor rule. Cool?

The justification for the accredited investor rule is "people are idiots". Again, not even that rich = less of an idiot. The premise of the rule is that rich people can afford to be bamboozled by scams and shitty investments... er, I mean, take on "higher risk investment opportunities".

I find that justification uncompelling on face.

But then people come along and complain "I can't use prosper.com to make unsecured personal loans to randos for an expected return of 5.7% per annum on loans with 15%-20% APY during a time when every other asset class out-performed and with the front end of that window overlapping with a time when unfathomably higher quality debt products were offering similar returns on 3 year timeframes". And just listening to them makes me second-guess myself.

My point? It is ironic and humorous that the most compelling justification for the accredited investor rule is listening to people talk about how they would invest if the accredited investor rule didn't exist.

For the record, since people keep completely losing the plot: I think something like an educational requirement makes a lot more sense.
They also change things, I notice they don't have the polish sausage anymore, the dog buns are different, etc.
'Bigger is better' is back for hardware – without any obvious benefits
Hiya! It was never abandoned, but the amount of time I devote to it ebbs and flows since I need to eat and have job and life responsibilities... It's still ever present in my mind, and the more patches and donations I get always helps!
> </sarcasm>?

Nope.

> to remeber

That's the point, you don't need to remember anything, it would come naturally after a day of tinkering with PS/pwsh.

You just write it for your current needs.

This example was just a quick one-liner, it's very simple:

ls | % { # get the file list, cycle for each item

rename-item # obvious usage: rename-item oldname newname

$_ # pretty obvious, the source - place the loop variable here ie file name

-newname # explicit calling for a parameter name, isn't really needed

$( # subroutine start or eval if you prefer, to construct the new file name:
# 'text' + (take property basename from the file and regex it) + 'text'

'myfile_' + ($_.BaseName -replace '\D') + '.md'

) # subroutine end

} # cycle end.

It could be simplified (in this example) to this:

ls | % {
$a = 'myfile_' + ($_ -replace '\D') + '.md'
rename-item $_ $a
}

which could be even written as a one-liner if you prefer it right now, just add a semicolon after `$a = ...`

ls | % {$a = 'myfile_' + ($_ -replace '\D') + '.md'; rename-item $_ $a }
Exactly 10 years ago (April 9th 2012): [0] Facebook Acquires Instagram.

Reaction:

"$1 billion for something literally no one uses."

"In 2 years, nobody will remember what instagram was."

Today (April 13th 2022), it is still alive. Somehow under Zuckerberg.

So just like how the decision for Instagram was also a decision that was something that's going to fail. Yeah, I'm going to really write off Meta again due to a couple of HN comments. /s

We'll see in another 10 years then. (April 13th 2032)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840&p=2
He was helping the worst dictator on Earth increase his power even more.

Right now there are sanctions against Russia, and some US companies are giving Bitcoin to Russians to help to escape the country, but the US government doesn’t make that illegal, because they are not helping Putin, but the refugees who got stuck in a horrible situation.

Of course US can make sending Bitcoin to Russian people illegal at any time, and then any person will know that they are risking going to prison if they still want to help those people.
The thing about mushrooms is the effect lasts well after “intoxication”. And the effect of mushrooms is anything but numbing. Scientifically they actually allow the brain to see things in a new light and overcome blocks (they relax the "default mode network" tho I am not a scientist).

Changing your behavior is of course very important but sometimes the mind gets stuck and it seems mushrooms can help get us unstuck.
A few years ago I revived my xt clone. It was pretty much in the original state from the 80s, but since I got a nice isa 10mbit nic, I thought i should get this sucker online.

But how to get the drivers on there? Copy via netw- oh wait. 5.25" floppy? Doesn't seem my laptop has a matching drive for that. I had a core2duo running as my home server which actually had a serial port, so win? Not so much, I had no success getting Linux to talk to the xt clone in any way. No idea if the port was bad, or the controller, or linux, or minicom/screen. So I dug out a Pentium 200 from the basement which had nt40 on it and visual basic 6. So I googled how to set up the serial port with it, wrote a simple sending tool, then googled some more to figure out how to write the receiving counterpart in gwbasic. At first the received file got corrupted since I didn't immediately grasp the whole flow control crap and just ignored it. But that lead to dropped data when the receive buffer filled up while the xt clone flushed the data to its massive 20mb drive. So I lowered the baud rate further and further until the clone could finally keep up. After transferring the driver plus htget sucessfully, I could finally download and upload everything else directly. All in all, that was a fun little exercise for a rainy Saturday, plus a few more weekends trying stuff out on the xt clone, like 8088mph which just hit the webs, and might have been what inspired me to go on this journey in the first place.
It's simply not realistic to expect or want this. You have only a final amount of time in a day so you can't have it both ways and still do EITHER well enough to be competitive with people who focus.

You simply have to let go and minimize programming or you have to minimize management/strategy.
Aren't most customers in 12+ month contracts? A migration seems like it would take many months to select a new vendor and migrate regardless. Be careful about the date on those puts. It's pretty hard to out-think the market on this kind of stuff. I'd just as soon bet the other way: few customers will actually churn and in 6 months this won't really matter.
Please omit hostile swipes from your HN comments, even when another comment doesn't make sense or feels off somehow. The swipe aspect only makes everything worse. You can express your question in a more open-minded way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It may surprise you, but providing information to sanctioned entities that could help them avoid sanctions is something Treasury does not like and it is explicitly listed as something that could land you in trouble.

It does not help that Virgil, with his own words, seem to indicate that he was aware that this could help evade sanctions.

In a sense, it is a little like openly saying you are aware this car was used for robbery. Obviously, we can easily argue that is not a good comparison at all, but in essence that is what is happening.
People believe the internet is dead despite there being vastly more of everything on the internet now.

People believe music, movies and video are dead despite services like Soundcloud and Youtube.

People believe game devlopment is dead despite the explosion (in both quality and quantity) of indie gaming.

People believe movies are dead despite Netflix and streaming.

People still talk about television, theaters and newspapers as if they were relevant.

The quality of everything is going up, but everything is shit now.

I really am starting to wonder if Hacker News is just where old hackers go to yell at clouds.
What's funny about Copernicus not understanding that the planets orbits were elliptical is that it must have been clear that the moon's orbit around Earth is. The Antikythera mechanism models an elliptical orbit for it, so it must have been obvious. Now, it's not obvious that the moon's orbit around the Earth is like that of the planets around the Sun, but it doesn't take much imagination to think that orbits are similar in nature regardless of what is being orbited.
Great question...

Firstly, as I said above:

> the amount of time I devote to it ebbs and flows since I need to eat and have job and life responsibilities... It's still ever present in my mind, and the more patches and donations I get always helps!

So sadly I don't have a real timeline. There are some people using it for real things, but that number is probably small as there are still some features I'd like to see for MVP.

Please get involved if you'd like to make it go faster!
What if he did the exact same presentation in youtube, and in NK they saw that presentation? What if someone in NK downloaded the open source implementation of that blockchain, participated on it, or even mined quite a few coins?

Could be argued the same about any open source program (and their developers) dealing with encrypted information in any way?

What was the problem? Going in person? Answering questions in the same way that he would do to any other person? Giving a "forbidden hint" that is basically spam all over internet by now?

I don't care about crypto, but I do care about what this precedent implies.
Since you say you don't know Go, I'll clarify one thing: the Go ethos includes curbing programmers who like to be clever and tricky and sophisticated. It irritates a lot of us but I understand there's probably wisdom in it. Haskell is one of my favorite languages, you don't have to sell me on generics. Now that Go relented and finally implemented them, a lot of people are worried that the "clever" programmers are going to have their way. This blog post, I think, is a means to curb that. So I'm wondering exactly where the line is from their perspective.
"As all tech industry observers are aware, the twin pillars of a successful startup are cost shifting (i.e. user generated labor) and regulatory arbitrage (i.e. tax avoidance)."
Meta to take nearly half of sales made by its metaverse creators as fees
>why this won't work, won't be useful, won't be cost effective, won't scale

Not an expert, but reading this a few negatives popped out. Basically they are heating a black body to 2400C and then making electricity from gathering the emitted light in a cell. They get to pick a temperature to match the bandgap of the cell.

The key problem is getting something that hot without using another (lossy) form of power. The Sun's surface is ~5600C so that's enough headroom to get there from solar. That's cool. But are there any fission reactors that get (or could get) that ridiculously hot?
Git v2.35.2 breaks actions/checkout in containers
I remember learning about this by some company that made DOS shareware clones of PacMan and Galaga but can't remember the name. Ring a bell?
Giant space telescopes could be made out of liquid
> "Nakamura beat the crafty Hungarian Grandmaster Richárd Rapport in the first of two semifinal matches. In the video detailing his second, he explained his philosophy. “Now, one of the big differences between now and two or three years ago when I was playing chess professionally—that’s all I was doing for the most part—is that I literally don’t care,” Nakamura said. “What that means is that, in a lot of these situations now, I’ll just pick a line and play it at the board. I will not worry about trying to pick the precise line or something that I’ve looked at most recently. I will just choose to show up and play the line that I want to play.” Chess competition is stressful, and being one of the best players in the world doesn’t make it any less so. After a draw on day five of the tournament, Rapport—who won the second leg of the Grand Prix and clinched a spot in the Candidates weeks later—gave an unrelentingly brutal post-match interview, in which he called himself his toughest opponent and pondered what he could have done with his life had he not devoted it to an underfunded, unforgiving game. “I wish I had chosen something else,” Rapport said. “If I had put in a similar amount of time and energy over the years, I think I’d be a happier person as of now.”

> It is only in this context that Nakamura’s “I don’t care” mantra approaches truth. Once hailed as the future of American chess, Nakamura has devoted his life to an ultracompetitive game, one that only two or three dozen people can make a comfortable living solely from playing. As he rose up the world ranks, he treated opponents like enemies and used criticism as fuel, becoming a highly disliked member of the chess scene. In online chess, where he was known for his blitz prowess since the two-thousands, he often accused opponents of cheating and fired off nasty messages after losses. The “I literally don’t care” mantra itself is a reference to Nakamura’s bitter reaction to a fluke online loss in which he repeated the phrase many more times than one would expect from someone who literally did not care."
This. It would be an impossible nightmare for every account to have their own DB. Hundreds of thousands of accounts and databases....
You'd have to ask a more specific question, this is a very general broad one which I can't answer directly. I don't know of any org using it atm on 10,000+ machines, but if you have such a cluster and want to try it out there, please lmk and I'll be happy to give you some tips.
50% sounds insane - but at least it's more transparent than the usual SV predatory path of starting with a low\zero rate and then increasing once achieved a high enough market share.
Reddit is ripe with astroturfing, bots, heavy moderation, and a politically/ideologically curated front page. There are some niche subreddits that can be great though.
Wait, this works? That's amazing. I suppose you could do the same with any camera sensor?
> emoji gender and skin color is encoded in character sequences

A good tool to see this broken down is https://unicode-x-ray.vercel.app/?t=%E2%9C%8C%F0%9F%8F%BC%F0... (edit: fixed url to use percent encoded emoji)