skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are not 'smart contracts' in the sense you think they are.

They are (probably) governed by some kind of broader contract, and can probably be 'undone' or come under regulator scrutiny.

'Smart contracts' are a neat way for parties to 'agree' on something in a distributed way - but there's just no way that they will live up to being 'regular contracts'.

Maybe for some things like currency exchange - maybe.

But for anything else that happens in this world, contracts are complicated and require nuance. And there's always lawyers and a Judge and regulators that might want to have a say.

And while the application you've described is 'neat' - it doesn't really accomplish much. It's a novelty.

I see zero use for blockchain thus far - other than the eventual appearance of a possibly useful kind of crypto asset that doesn't exist yet because BTC and Etherium are full of flaws.
I was thinking "oh! this is awesome!", and then noticed it didn't support MSSQL. Not to worry, I'll just contribute a connector. Let's take a look at their existing connector code...

https://github.com/Qovery/replibyte/blob/main/replibyte/src/...

Not a single comment to say what anything does. Sigh. It's the same for the other drivers too.
Indeed, it was actually James Gleick's book The Information that helped me understand the concept better.
Correct, switch it off and the plane can fly fine.

Thing is though the pilots of the second MAX crash took all the right steps. Just too slow.

There was like 10 seconds to turn off mcas, after that a crash was inevitable.
It's a use case I happen to like, doesn't mean it's for everyone. Another way to view it - how large a project would it be to program this? It's basically given to you for free when money is programatic such as in crypto!
>> the wreckage is the work of NASA, a component called a backshell that detached during the landing of the Perseverance rover on the surface of the red planet in February 2021.

So, not really "Otherworldly."

Misleading headline by NY Times.
Perhaps, but it's not relevant to the situation I described, which relied on each plumber having an absolute advantage over the other one. For relative advantage to come into play, there would have to be some kind of limit to the total amount of work one plumber could do.
There must be major genetic component to heart attacks. They run in some families, and, as the article says, being South Asian is in itself higher risk.

Then there are the counterexamples. My grandma ate like pig (as a kid, I couldn't even tolerate the smell of some foods she enjoyed), was fat for most of her life, her blood lipids were all over the place, she never exercised and died of cancer aged 90 with negligible levels of atherosclerosis. Something in her genetic(?) makeup protected her from the consequences.
Taken literally, this is a bit silly. I've read (and written) unpublished chapters that were absolutely terrible. There's clearly some kind of quality control going on.

It's just that the top 1% of literary output is a huge volume of work and most of it is pretty good. The fashion is which of the top books make it in front of you, but you're not seeing the invisible 90% of books that would never get there, or the 9% that need a lot of luck and an editor with a hatchet.
> Another thing Go eschewed (that I rarely hear argued) is classes

structs and functions on them are basically classes. golang lacks subclasses as you point out, otherwise everything is the same.
In my experience as someone who regularily measures temperatures of surfaces (electronics) something as low as 45°C (so just a handful degrees over body temperature) can already feel hot to the touch.

This would the area where it could just be the effects of the sun.
Show HN: Ielts Speaking Blog: Specialised speech exercises that get results
Hello HN!

I’m a career language instructor —17 years!— that has used shadowing exercises (i.e. teacher says, students repeat) throughout my career to train for pronunciation success. About a year ago, I decided to build a product around this to help students prepare for their IELTS (a language proficiency exam used for university admittance and immigration purposes). So far, the product has attracted lots of signups and positive feedback, which I find reassuring.

I’m very interested to get valuable HN feedback, particular on the UX of my project. I have never been good at UK design, and I worry my presentation here is confusing to navigate. This is a Podia-based project, so I’m trying to wrap my presentation around Podia’s powerful but somewhat rigid framework.

What do you think? Link: https://www.ieltsspeakingblog.com/

(I’m aware you can’t see what a paid account holder would see, but is navigating the landing/free content intuitive?)

Greatly appreciate your time and feedback!
Sure but now we need a company to maintain this stuff! And that means staff, fees, etc... It could very easily be an open source contract with a list of oracles that are voted for/against adding.
Ah, if that was their only point, then I should have pointed out that a better operating department can achieve a lower waiting time with the same degree of slack. I understand the utilization rate tradeoff and that's not the issue.

I'm glad you've enjoyed writing your comments--like your style. :)
And even simpler to get it wrong and get hacked/lose money irretrievably
It is pretty clear what is collected: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

They also share what they know about you (used for ad purposes) and you can control (delete) that data: https://www.facebook.com/about/basics
>I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the vast majority of people do not consider it unethical for a country to enforce its laws or have a military.

Enforcing laws and the current sorry state of the police in the US (and elsewhere to different debrees) are not in a 1:1 relationship.

>As for restricting use by Israelis, I'll just point out that the license itself considers it an ethical requirement to treat people equally regardless of their nationality.

It doesn't restrict based on nationality. Read the license. It has an optional module to defer to the judgement of BDS. This is much more selective than whatever the US is doing to Cuba within the country but also includes a bunch of international companies that profit of what BDS considers unethical activity. (Not here to judge or assess the validity of the BDS list, but it does correspond to some people's notion of ethics)
> First off, you need to be in the same country as most require KYC for your specific location (SSN or NI numbers).

This is probably because social gambling is still illegal in some places and any legitimate company will not want to participate in your illegal activity. But using crypto tech for facilitating illegal things tracks..
Here is a clickable link to make it easier for you to visit the site:
https://www.ieltsspeakingblog.com/
Optimal Dynamic Stochastic Fiscal Policy with Endogenous Debt Limits [video]
It was totally an accident, the embedded app demo was interfering with the browser router. I fixed it now!
It's not a fallacy, it's a paradox. One that indicates that our theories of quantum fluctuations in an infinite universe are incomplete.

This podcast episode has a good discussion on the subject: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/745
Energy per capita, yes. But electricity per capital not necessarily. Things like smelting, shipping, and air travel, all of which depends on fossil fuel must be electrified.
New channel to follow! Thanks for the share.

I'm a software guy. But I had enough brushes with electronics as a child to use it for hobbies. My first broken device was a speak and spell. I connected wires to random spots to make it "talk funny". My parents first astonished that I was destroying my toys, realized this and pushed me to the electronics section of Radio Shack. Lots of projects starting with the 555 timer IC. I made radios and timers, and connected my computers to things that moved. This microcontroller revolution really has made me wish I had these things growing up.

One important thing though is I had a friend who was at a similar level as myself for grades 5-7. Though he was literally a ham in grade school. We both learned programming around the same time and the back and forth made it seem so much easier than it really was. And we were so much better at recognizing what was going to be useful, popular, powerful when we worked together as compared to working under instruction.

I lost him to a move. And I needed that so much in higher grades. One good industry-centered mentor would have given me so much. But I guess self-motivation is the skill that got me where I am; and I create incredible things on a daily basis. So there's that I guess.
This is one of the ironies of HN to me. It can feel like “you’re keeping up with trends” by following HN regularly.

And then you experience this (either firsthand or secondhand) and realize just how completely randomly arbitrary it is if your submission floats to the “top 30” or not.

Which doesn’t mean it’s not still worthwhile reading (I still follow regularly), it’s just that it’s more like a daily fortune cookie than it is any sort of “curated by popular consensus.”
If you go by numbers alone then I'd say somewhere around 99.99% of them are scams. If you go by market cap then I would lower that number to only like 95%.

I think an unflinching belief in crypto in the face of so many scams is the consequence of having a good percentage of your wealth tied up in it. Even if the person himself was scammed, it would be in his interest to not admit it in the hopes that he can pass the bag on to some other greater fool.
Ask HN: Who is responsible for educating and raising a child?
Choice 1: Parents
Choice 2: The State
Choice 3: Teachers
Choice 4: “The Village”
Just to be super clear about this: "more emacs-y" is not personally a preference of mine, and I'm actually more attracted to things that consciously break the mold of conventional Emacs (I love Helm, I love Magit, I love things that pop new UI up into my face). And most of the stuff that eglot integrates into, I didn't really ever play with or even know before I turned eglot on.

What makes eglot work for me is that it actually works. It is very low drama and does essentially what it says it'll do. I open up a file in most of the languages I work on, click on a function call, `xref-find-definitions`, and poof there I am at that function's definition. It's cut down my grepping by at least 50%.
"strong preferences for navigation over search" is surprising to me.

For email, Inbox Zero means everything is basically in Archive, and is findable by successive application of filters.

For files, the requirements of a "project", ie. related files in one repo, means I need to traverse directories.

Mapping memory parts by attributes is way easier for me (file was written in SCSH, something something Pascal's Triangle) than mapping to hierarchies (is that in pkg/scsh or pkg/cs101 or ...).

Hard to believe other people have super good mapping of memories to file hierarchies. Or maybe just repo-based hierarchies is dumb?
> Those are not 'smart contracts' in the sense you think they are.
> They are (probably) governed by some kind of broader contract, and can probably be 'undone' or come under regulator scrutiny.

By smart contract, in this regard, I mean an Ethereum Solidity contract connected to an Oracle that has an Escrow component.

The way I see it is there are many companies at the moment that sit in the middle and mediate things by offering escrow services and trust that if you send X you'll receive Y. Crypto lets you start moving those things into a P2P setting by its nature of atomic transactions, programatic contracts/money, etc... Which I find pretty cool and I think a lot of people who spend some time in the space find cool too. FWIW I was skeptical when I first found a bitcoin ATM at Google Campus in 2014 and only really 'got it' in 2020 after years of saying WTF is the point? And for me that was when I was trying to organise an esports tournament with some strangers online and couldn't decide on how payments would work, while the services that managed this (read some API results and paid out after 7 working days) took a 15% fee.
Tektronix didn't go bust. It was acquired for $2.8b in 2007 with 4,000 employees and is now part of an umbrella corporation that trades as NYSE:FTV.

Their scopes are still for sale and still good.
Rocket Mortgage to trim 8% of workforce as home-loan market shrinks
Can you open an issue to ask for getting better documentation on how to contribute for an additional connector?
Seems like it is if people are still using it despite the fact that the sentiment around the company has been negative for quite some time.

2.9b DAU.
Just a tip for making Teams useable. Every time it doesnt work/wont allow you to join a call/ you cannot answer call etc which happens multiple times a day just run this powershell Taskkill /IM Teams.exe /F and start Teams again. And here you go, you can again answer calls and join meetings:)

I have this script saved on my Desktop under name useteams.ps1 and I have to run it sometimes multiple times a day.
Which would you click? There's this weird phenomena in society where we always attribute different actions than those we'd take to the rest of society, and I think it drives a lot of this stupidity.

There was certainly a time that yellow journalism drove interest, but that's because it was more the exception than the rule, which enabled it to exploit naivete more effectively. Now that everything is a historic alarming unprecedented catastrophic dangerous event (or in the equal but opposite direction an amazing groundbreaking miracle cure for cancer), I mostly just yawn and look for the next link. And I've no reason to believe that my tolerance for hyperbole (to describe what's happening kindly) is substantially less than the rest of society.

As some sort of quantitative evidence for my argument, I'd also point to the trust in media polling [1]. There is only 1 "media" outlet that more than 50% of Americans rate as at least "somewhat trustworthy" - The Weather Channel. That absolutely all trust has collapsed leads me to believe most people know all of this stuff is, at best, yellow journalism.

[1] - https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
> Not to be mean, but 'leave nursing' and then what ? Nursing is a well paying middle-class job without a lot of transferable skills to other professions.

Whelp, that the whole point. When you have a good paying job and people are leaving in droves for ??? anything else, maybe even teaching or staying home. That's a bad sign.
Sabotaged QA you mean. When you're getting hounded about polishing that apple because management wants crap out the door, that's a powerful message that not even some of the most insanely dedicated QA groups can fully defang.
Counterpoint LinkedIn. It’s possible there have also been breaches that have been held under tighter wraps.

I don’t necessarily disagree with the sentiment, just trying to provide some perspective.
Kinda reminds me of Subnautica's submerged debris fragments.
Like, is NASA gonna scan that shell and unlock the Cyclops' bridge?
How many launch failures have been attributed to materials failures in the engines themselves, and not improper process and/or maintenance before actual launches?

My intuition is that the latter would exceed the former, and that test stands aren’t a realistic environment for predicting their likelihood.
You can use env vars in the conf yaml file -> https://github.com/Qovery/replibyte/blob/main/examples/sourc...
I wonder what the intended use of this technology is?
Ah sorry, slightly misinterpreted, my understanding was that without slack you cannot stabilize queue sizes which makes OP incorrect(?)

Yeah, more efficient nodes can delay that effect, but it seems that in real world system the existence of buffers means that consequences are delayed in ways that have significance (across careers, elections, etc) and those factors tend to dominate.

yw, nice that anyone reads it, without that i'd just be another mad shouty bloke on the internet, maybe i still am :)
Because ice is solid you can argue it takes less information because the particles aren't moving at all or in together in unison, so it will take less buts to encode.

Furthermore, velocity is also a product of direction as much as speed, so if you take into consideration a solid object may vibrate it's particles in the same direction while a liquid can have it's particles in infinite directions, you're talking about way more information you have to encode.
The airframe was changed significantly, creating the need for the whole MCAS solution — why? Because this was seen as a solution to avoid a recertification of the airframe, which would mean pilots had to re-train, which would mean airlines wouldn't buy, which means money would not flow.

Avoiding this recertification was the only reason MCAS was chosen instead of designing an airframe in such ways the now bigger engines actually have their center of gravity where it is expected to be.

This was ultimately a cost saving measure. Boeing could not be bothered to recertify the airframe purely for comercial reasons, not because it objectively made sense.
If I don't secure any resources on AWS, even for a one off test dummy without any real data in it I receive a barrage of eMails from CIO. So does my technical studio lead. If we don't react within 24 hours the technical MD of our org will be on the receiving end of these emails as well.

So within the org I am part of it is actually absolutely clear what the basic security configuration is. But it is also such a hassle, that I at least (being a data analyst sometimes in need of a short one off project for testing) just don't use it anymore for anything ephemeral (living few days at most) without containing any real world data.

Securing the AWS instance would more often than not actually take nearly as much time as setting up a proof of concept project for a demo itself. More often than not that is only replicating an existing poc and changing a few images, fonts and a bit of text to make it look more like the client's pages/corporate identity.

Then a short demo in a meeting and after that a tear down. Worst case these demos are live for 3 days.

So security as well as compliance add 50 - 100% of effort in these cases. Making POCs on AWS just not worth the effort.

As much as I understand that anything more than a poc needs to be secured I would wish for a way of communicating that some things are just so temporary as to not warrant this overkill. But as this could be abused, there just isn't.

So tl;dr:
Orga can ensure security and best practices in AWS if the invest to monitor and check automatically. But that does have other consequences as well.

[Edit] : typos
(Another ex Heroku person here)

At the time of acquisiton (Dec 2010) the Bamboo stack was the only GA stack, Cedar was in beta which used buildpacks internally but custom buildpacks didn't come to 2012 https://blog.heroku.com/buildpacks
i'm just a layperson but to me all current AI generated shit suffers from a lack of rigor. It's easy to be fooled, and for many intents and purposes the results can be useful but there's the core problem of a lack of correctness in the inscrutable and statistical process and the entire concept of "training data". Real AI should be able to postulate things on its own through inherent intuition without requiring training. As it is currently, we anthropomorphizing much of AI results. BTW, I generated this comment with an AI. And I'm a cat.
I didn't have to send it back to factory - there is an authorized Omega workshop in my city, they can order all the original parts directly from Switzerland. The watch is even getting a new dial(50 year old "new" stock!) and yeah, Omega is just sending it to them on a replacement basis.
Avoiding misconfiguration using TFSEC for Terraform Code [video]
I had to release the source code, then I'm making it very easy for a bad actor to find a vulnerability and exploit it to leak the data of citizens

So that's why no governments run Linux servers, right? After all, the Linux kernel is open source.

And just to throw in a silly extrapolation... I would love an M109 Paladin tank... my tax dollars pay for them :-)

And just to throw in some silly pedantry, the M109 is a self-propelled howitzer, not a tank. :)
Security patches can be applied even to the kernel without restarting anything though, so having a high uptime is not mutually exclusive with staying up to date. Of course, you do have to pay extra for live patching.
we’re using aiven.io and quite happy, although hard for me to compare. you can port across clouds, which is reassuring if we need to switch. Otherwise their support was helpful debugging a couple of db issues (in our own code). Wonder how they compare in this matrix if anyone knows?

no affiliation. just a customer.
Yeah, I don't think this is really "passive", mainly because his "works" are quite time-sensitive and short-lived... I'm not saying the OP did something wrong or bad or anything. It just looks more like he worked extra hours for extra income. I've seen some people who work >12 hours a day (main + side) and earn >$100k/year, and this case feels much more natural if I think this way.
Did you read the Article? No one is writing off the Russian Army, not even the author above. But they do make a valid point that all Western intelligence assessments were that Kiev would fall in a matter of days and Ukraine would be subdued quickly similar to how the Americans obliterated Iraq. Given the assumed capability of the Russian army, clearly that hasn't happened, and this article explains in all likelihood the shortcomings of the Russian military.
But the counter to that is, just because you work a minimum wage job and can't afford much child support, doesn't mean that what you can afford is enough to raise the child well. I expect it's very hard to say "the child needs _this_ much in order to be raised well" and then scale up from 0 to that amount as the parent makes more money. But you also can't just decide how much the child needs and then make the parent pay that much no matter how much they make. So the compromise is to base the amount paid on the amount the parent makes, and not really cap it. This has the benefit of allowing low earning parents to pay less, at the cost of high earning parents paying more (than is really needed).
I think the poster might be referring to "Sensodyne Repair & Protect with NovaMin"
Sanderson's very succesful suprise foray into self-publishing has probably caught the attention of genre leading authors and I expect more to follow.
That's why RepliByte uses S3 to store transformed data. Then the real production data never leave the production environment. https://github.com/Qovery/replibyte/blob/main/docs/DESIGN.md
We all are. :)
It's probably Tufts. https://www.boston.com/news/health/2022/01/23/pediatric-doct...
I believe the Nyxt project is interested in adding editing at some point. There’s also Lem which is a terminal based Emacs.

GNU Emacs has by far the strongest community and ecosystem though.
This seems pretty bad but I'm not certain it will take off. The main problem is you can't really tell productivity this way. As a software engineer, a portion of my job happens on pen and paper, a whiteboard, or sometimes just thinking really hard. Taking a 10 minutes walk is extremely productive for figuring out a problem. Actually writing code is still a big part of the job, but I don't think there's a way to measure my progress besides communication.