skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Bitcoin is very effective environmental activism.

While using the per-design resource destroying, planet burning Proof-Of-Waste? Are you Kidding?

And no, deflation does not encourage more long term investments, it does simply encourage hoarding, not exactly a desirable thing, form any perspective. And of course it is the fatal (and likely never fixed) flaw in bitcoin-as-a-currency.
If I lose 50 € to some unscrupulous merchant, that's worth it to not have to ask the bank for permission for and tell them about every transaction.

in other words, you aren't poor enough for the loss of 50 € to mean that you are going to have less food this month and won't be late on your rent because of it.
Docker is very slow on MacOS
90% by market cap or nominal quantity of projects?

Like, if we are using the second metric we could even create 1000s of irrelevant PoS coins to pump that baby up.
You can plant an undetectable backdoor in any deep learning model
The UI is atrocious on Mac OS X or on Windows.

Out of the box, Linux UI is a bit better - but it's easy to make it excellent and make it fit like a glove. Tiling or partially tiling managers outside of Linux are terrible.

Whether you like a default full fledged desktop experience with Plasma or you go with a super tuned sway, you can really get what you want out of your machine.

The UI is the main reason I try to use Linux as much as I can but there are tons of other advantages. Docker works natively and fast, developing anything (but iOS apps) is a smooth experience. Package managers are 20 years ahead brew or chocolate on Windows.

If you use Arch you get an even better package manager experience compared to other distro: you get bleeding edge packages + AUR, a user contributed repository of scripts to build and install custom packages.

If you use something like NixOS you get to define your system with a configuration file and you can truly bootstrap and switch between different systems with a CLI command.
It is funny that all the problems with "crypto" have long ago been solved by bitcoin... [sad face]
Absolutely. IMO the best current ThinkPad in terms of performance per dollar is the T480 (Quad Core Intel 8th gen). You can find them shockingly cheap if you're patient. Like only 50% more than the T420, which has an ancient Dual Core.
Yes, it's saying (water ∧ ¬life) = false, which implies (¬water ∨ life) = true, which implies water ⇒ life.
I have considered it, but it would introduce a very large amount of complexity -- and make rqlite much more complicated to operate. Adding this type of functionality would push mean rqlite would no longer be a worthwhile system to use. It would do something (sharding) probably no better than other systems, but no longer be trivial to operate. rqlite does something somewhat narrow, but does that very well (though I would say that :-) )
Netflix hints at .. fall
These are all features as long as you live in a world where there is no bad faith, no misunderstandings, no drama of any sorts.

In this world however, disputed transactions may even be more than half, depending on the industry. You can't approach something that ignores this as a serious financial tool.
Unless this is sarcasm, do you wanna talk about the environmental ramifications of so much work being duplicated and dumped in the bitcoin network? Like, the sheer number of machines and waste heat that comes from nodes who weren't quite fast enough to get the payout, and just had to put all those calculations into /dev/null?
Sheer stupidity and stubbornness. Hoping this lands right back in court and he walks away with $12MM… and that the city counsel is dismissed.
This doesn't make sense. The vast majority of people aren't interested in the slightest about the technology. Nobody needs or wants to know the intricacies of SEPA payments, I just want to touch the terminal with my watch and boom, payment completed.
I use a Framework and it's been fantastic. Even the fingerprint works "out of the box" (in quotes because in Arch Linux nothing is really out of the box... I just had to install the right package). The only particularly disappointing thing is that the battery drains mega fast while suspended. This is something I might be able to tinker away, of course. And for what it's worth, non-functional suspend is basically par for the course for every Windows laptop I've ever owned.

Also, I get the feeling that the Framework isn't your typical first product. It's built to be upgradable, so unless you find something fundamentally off-putting about the shape of the board, I'm not sure if you get much by waiting for the next generation. If they release a slimmer case, better keyboard, touch screen, or whatever, then you should be able to retrofit the new thing onto an old machine. Of course, the product is still young. Time will tell if this actually pans out.
How’s the trackpad?

Is good keyboard quantifiable somehow? As good as old T?
I hope the next article would touch upon anti-tulip toxicity.
I'm happy with my T480 (has NVidia, but I disabled it -- it did mostly work with open source drivers, just warmish)... USB-C DP, PD works.

The only issue I have is that original Docking station sometimes fails to switch audio outputs (Ubuntu LTS).
Ah yes, banks, the champions of the poor man.
The idTech model is to open source the code (after a couple of years) but keep the content non-free so you still need to buy the game from the original creator even once someone else creates a better version of the code.

This does not give you as much (legal) freedom as opening up the whole thing does but gets pretty close and most importantly removes most of the technical challenges for improving and maintaining the game. It's also probably way easier to accomplish since writing, art and music has even less of an open source culture than software.
Bitcoin isn't averse to change, it's averse to changes that impede on its core attributes: decentalized, permissionless, global, censorship-resistance. Increasing the block size as a patch to keep fees down infringes on the core attributes, because you increase the minimum requirements for running a node.

There's a lot of innovation happening in and on Bitcoin. RSK for smart contracts, BetterHash for mining pool decentralization, the Lightning Network or Liquid Network as examples of layered scaling.

Bitcoin's dev meetups are great examples of the helpful, thoughtful, enterprising and conscientious community that exists, without the overly loud, overly shallow speculators.
I agree here, it would be nice if this was the case. Like you I also worry that in it's current form a crypto banking implementation for the underbanked people of the world would be a worse solution for everyone.

- No human being that's able to reverse fraudulent or mistaken transactions

- Currency that's hardly more stable (probably less so) than the world's the least stable currencies

- A digital environment that's rife with fraud and a completely fresh and unknown attack surface due to the nature of smart contracts

- Sky high transaction costs. Meaning the poor (the unbanked) will may more for banking than the rich do. (like they do for furniture https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/10/16/...)
Yeah, it would distract from the key goal of rqlite -- which is a trivial to deploy, simple to operate, reliable distributed store for critical relational data.
This sounds like teflon, approved because it is organically safe until it reaches a certain temp, even for a second, then it releases toxic gas, and becomss permanatly harmful to cook on.

The approval logic was, people will:

- always be very careful cooking, and never ever let the heat get too high

- people will learn about teflon, and keep watch

- people care

Meanwhile, stories abound of people's birds dying from toxic gas (they are more susceptible, and die first).

Note that if a bird dies, and you don't, that doesn't mean you were not injured. Or your family.

If you're giving anything to a consumer, assume they know nothing, that they cannot follow directions, won't care even if they understand, etc, etc.

Because that's how it is.

This is validated, proven, over and over and over again.

I love the idea of airtight, but think it is like lead in pipes. If we build like this, kids ... with their developing brains and bodies, will pay the price.

And 40 years later, we'll be astonished at the absurdity of it all, the lost potential, wasted lives. Just like lead pipes, paint, etc.
Do you have a screenshot? I can imagine how it looks like, but a screenshot would be nice anyway.
I'm sure they'll hint at it but if they're doing it then they're truly desperate. Certainly they know better than most that people willing to tolerate sharing an account aren't going to pay for a subscription when they get kicked off.
How good is the keyboard?
Quoting from the FAQ:

dqlite is library, written in C, that you need to integrate with your own software. That requires programming. rqlite is a standalone application -- it's a full RDBMS (albeit a relatively simple one). rqlite has everything you need to read and write data, and backup, maintain, and monitor the database itself. rqlite and dqlite are completely separate projects, and rqlite does not use dqlite. In fact, rqlite was created before dqlite.

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/blob/master/DOC/FAQ.md#how-...
It's the equivalent of a politician blaming the press when things go south. Maybe stop wasting the military budget of a medium-sized country on poorly-curated content.
The Taliban has gained control of helicopters that were left behind during the US' retreat from the country.

Additionally, they seem to have a budding relationship with China, who are capable of manufacturing more advanced aircraft.
You can run Ubuntu under Parallels on Mac M1. It works well for us.
Note that the 0.3% cap is on the interchange, i.e. the fee that goes back to the card issuer, it doesn't affect Visa and Mastercard directly.

PSPs in the EU/EEA charge around 1% overall, a bit more to small businesses (for instance SumUp), and a bit less to the really big retailers that have more bargaining power.
Thanks again for the great write-up.
> The problem with most CI/CD systems is that people tightly couple themselves to the tool without really understanding it

Related to this, it can be a genuine benefit to adapt your process to the tools rather than the other way round, especially if they're really widely used tools, because then you know you're adopting a process that works for someone.

It does however require humility. The absolute worst excesses of "Enterprise" are "custom COTS": buy some software which is built around a standard process, then try to crowbar that to match a completely different one which is inflexible not for business reasons but for organisational-politics reasons.
> However, there appears to be no one particular dominant one-stop type of portal offering comparisons across all kinds of product and service categories like Comparis or Idealo.

The US market is too large. Comparis works because there are only a small number of competitors in each of their targeted categories; e.g., they're able to maintain a list of current and past mortgage rates by period for almost every Swiss provider. That's much more difficult to do in the states. The same reasoning applies for mobile tariffs, personal loans, and automobiles.

Re healthcare, also remember that most people in the US have health care through their employers, so price shopping isn't necessary. When you do need to purchase private health insurance, most of the states along with the Federal government have health insurance marketplaces that provide their own price comparisons.

Also, competition among price comparison websites is much more intense, so they tend to focus on particular niches. It's easier to, say, run a successful comparison website for a single product category than for a large range of product categories and services. Compare pcpartpicker.com with toppresie.ch. They both have quality content - in fact, I would say that toppreise.ch is better, but the user interface and overall experience is much better with the former.
Great post! Did you migrate your old database to Azure Flexible Server, Hyperscale (Citus) or a standalone VM, as Postgres 13 does not seem to be available for Azure Postgres Single Server.
Wires also provide power
This is the perfect illustration of the gambler's it-isn't-necessarily-a-fallacy!

Despite a uniform distribution of tetrominoes, if you haven't seen that all important I in awhile, the run is "cold" and you are in fact "due".

For the gambler's fallacy to apply, events have to be both random and uncorrelated, where most interesting real-life situations (i.e. not games) the degree of correlation between events isn't zero: that's one way to observe a normal distribution, but not even the usual one.
We can get some of this by paying more attention to other indigenous cultures.

Australian Aborigines have an oral culture with ancient roots, and life hacks that have resulted in an astonishing long-lived culture.

The Khasi, as an example of a matrilineal culture, help remind us that certain things we take for granted - like how men are supposedly more competitive than women - simply isn't true.

(https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13727/w137... - "amongst the Khasi ... women choose the competitive environment more often than Khasi men").

Or concepts revolving around "third gender" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender .
Is there version of this article without all this bloat?
https://imgur.com/KQavz34
No. Actually that was a main requirement for me. I hate noises. The computer is completely silent except when doing heavy computation or maybe long video calls in the browser (and then it's not that bad, though I would not notice that much because my headset blocks a lot of noises), and only if KDE's power setting is not set to power saving (though some things can feel a bit sluggish then). And the computer keeps cool.

The 840 G3 was similar in this respect (that's how I discovered the Elitebook, the lab had an agreement with HP at the time), except I had to turn off the secondary HDD I chose to take when tweaking the configuration with hdparm -Y.

Though the ZBook seems more focused on performance than the Elitebook, so maybe the Elitebook will not cut it if you expect similar performance.

The ThinkPad actually spins its fans more easily than the HP I think, but it is also more powerful. The HP's noise when the fan do spin is also less annoying than the ThinkPad, it's a soft blow.
I don't use cryptocurrency as a replacement for a credit card, I use it as a replacement for cash. Banks aren't risk-free either, it's a lower probability of problems for a much more devastating impact.

Compare a frozen bank account to a fraudulent transaction you can't revert. Sure, the latter is more frequent, but the former is devastating.
Choice? Good package manager and tool setup out of the box? Not having to buy a bunch of $10 utilities every 3 years to fix basic OS pain points that end up broken by an OS update or Apple killing some thing? macOS wants you do things the Apple way and going against that is a lot of pain in my experience for little gain.

My 2018 MBP would lose battery on sleep too. I don't even know what shutdown does because the force trackpad still keeps clicking while "off".
Powershell, Windows Terminal and oh-my-posh get you pretty close to zsh on Linux. I'll comment back with a few more tweaks I had to make to powershell to get closest to the Linux experience.

But my biggest gripe is not having tmux. There are some window/tab/pane management shortcuts in Windows Terminal but they're not as good as tmux (yet).
Also hinted at ad supported tier. Probably roll those out together

Then get acquired within a decade.
For me, Netflix needs higher quality content.

More creative risky shows like the OA, Altered Carbon, Love, Death & Robots, Black Mirror and more old HBO style content… quality vs factory cookie cutter produced stuff trying to satisfy the lowest common denominator, because then you will satisfy no one.

Maybe they have good shows I just don't know about. Their recommendation system seems to be crap. I browse for 20 minutes and then give up frustrated, because I can't find anything interesting.

Today I was looking to downgrade my plan. Basic only gives you SD quality, which I'm OK with but only allowing one device at a time is taking the p!ss.

It's getting too expensive for what it is.

So rather than downgrading I'm now thinking about cancelling. If their Basic plan would support 2 concurrent devices then I'd stay.

Well done Netflix.
Second this. I run an Arch derived distro on my ASUS AMD Zen3 5900 with 8 cores/16 hw threads and the cpu benchmarks are close to the M1 macs for about half the price.

The Realtek WiFi device is a problem with hp laptops too. Works but needs a cold reboot after the hibernate wakes up.

Are you saying the intel WiFi chip is pin compatible with the Realtek? That’s an amazing find.
The really big thing that gets me on macos is not having focus-follows-mouse and works-everywhere select-to-copy middle-click-to-paste. Yes, this is "just" a UI thing, and yes, I can more or less get used to the macos choices (I used a macbook air as my "take to conferences" laptop for some years and still use it as my "video-calls machine" -- when I bought it no PC was close for hardware quality and weight at the price). But I've been using a Linux window manager with those behaviours for 25 years now, and I'm just more comfortable and familiar with them. macos makes a lot of choices for you, which is great when they're about stuff that you don't care about or isn't a deal-breaker. But if you're unlucky and one of those choices is a personal deal-breaker, then sometimes you can end up just having to rule out a macos machine.
Not in the long term if it leads to unproductive property being put to better uses, like building housing.

Land value taxes aren't a silver bullet that can solve problems like California's permitting process, but it would certainly align incentives in a much healthier direction than Prop 13 does.
I'd go for the framework. They're going so over the top that it's wrong to not support that company.
Fake questions are not well received here. Can you change the title to something like "Switchcenter: a OSX Mission Control alternative" or "Switchcenter: Revised osx windows management" ?
Goodbye, Google Analytics – Why and How You Should Leave the Platform
Two of the coolest piece of software might I add and continuing on strong today!
You are correct for Metric TSP (weights satisfying the triangle inequality) but not for Euclidean TSP.
Added one now!
Unfortunately, the world tends to dish out black swan events that invalidate your assumptions of what is reasonable. Canadian truckers, Argentinian hyperinflation, Sri Lankan federal deficits, Turkish central banking mismanagement, Russian expansionist delusions... the list goes on and on.

Sure, the dollar is reasonably stable. The problem is that the global financial system is deeply flawed in its fundamental properties. Bitcoin is a hedge against inflation, financial meltdowns, geo-spatial catastrophy, and more.
> What is this custom database?

The current application is Ethereum L1 state and state history, but it has useful properties for other applications. It's particularly good at being small and fast, and compressing time-varying blockchain-like or graph data.

As it's a prototype I'm not committing to final figures, but measurement, theory and prototype tests project the method to be significantly smaller and faster than other implementations, or at least competitive with the state of the art being researched by other groups.

> Why did you reinvent the wheel?

Different kind of wheel. No storage engine that I'm aware of has the desired combination of properties to get the size (small) and speed (IOPS, lower read & write amplification) in each of the types of operations required. Size and I/O are major bottlenecks for this type of application; in a way it's one of the worst cases for any kind of database or schema.

It's neither a B-tree nor an LSM-tree, (not a fractal tree either), because all of those are algorithmically poor for some of the operations required. I found another structure after being willing to "go there" relating the application to low-level storage behaviour, and reading older academic papers.

These data structures are not hard to understand or implement, once you get used to them. As I've been working on and off for many years on storage structures as a hobby (yeah, it's fun!), it's only natural to consider it an option when faced with an unusual performance challenge.

It also allowed me to leverage separate work I've done on raw Linux I/O performance (for filesystems, VMs etc), which is how random-access reads are able to reach millions/s on a single NVMe SSD.

> Is it as durable as Postgres?

Yes.

Modulo implementation bugs (because it won't have the scrutiny and many eyes/years of testing that Postgres does).

> Any links?

Not at this time, sorry!
CMU Database Tech Talks: QuestDB [video]
You could also just pronounce it the way the rest of the world does
It will be interesting to watch Netflix pivot from a media company to an ad tech company. Maybe Netflix will do a documentary on it.
the content really has gotten pitiful; I use netflix, hulu, hbomax and amazon prime (and honestly mostly watch free content on youtube) - netflix is my last choice when trying to find something to watch - and yes, I share the account with my adult children.

If they crack down on sharing, count me in as another lost subscriber - seems they are biting the hands that feeds them with this move - reeks of desperation.
Another very happy LG Gram / Linux user here. Fingerprint reader seems to work for me, running Ubuntu 22.04.
Breakfast became the most important meal of the day
Ask HN: Unconventional Role?
I'm seeking direction and guidance. I'm between roles. I've been trying to carve out an unconventional role for myself, doing what I enjoy doing and what I'm best at. I'm seeking advice because I'm not sure what role best matches what I'm looking for.

I've come through software development. I juked the Management track and stayed on the IC track. Senior, Team Lead, Principal. But I don't want to strictly do software engineering anymore. I'd like to do systems engineering, or business engineering, or something.

I'd like to make the lives of customers and employees better, through making possible what was not possible before, or reducing burden.

I'd like to do that by helping businesses build systems _beyond just software_ that, having both internal and external effects. This could be having a hand in the product offering, business organisation and operation, commissioning software teams or shaping organisational culture. I'd also like to help coach the software engineering teams that build the software, because that's where I've come from.

I feel like I'm looking for something between a principal engineer, a product manager and an engineering director. I want to keep my boots on the ground, but help shape what is going on above.

I'm applying for principal engineer roles, however the companys I've interviewed for are looking for this role to be primarily focussed on moving tickets across a JIRA board, which isn't really what I'm shooting for. I want to help businesses and teams move the appropriate tickets across JIRA boards. I'm getting really great feedback, but they just aren't hiring for _that_ role.

Is there another role I could consider in my position?

Any and all advice is appreciated.
I actually do still use it to pay for a SAAS side project from a retired startup founder who got kicked off paypal. It's super convenient for digital stuff like that.