skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not entirely true. A fine from a regulator, no matter how small, contains the threat that a much bigger punishment will come if you are a repeat offender. That includes trading suspensions:

https://www.sec.gov/files/tradingsuspensions.pdf

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/suspensions.htm
If you have social media apps, TURN off notifications, block them forever!

I also tried using greyscale screen modes in accessibility and I found it cut my phone usage in half. Definitely a cheap win for me to the point that I barely ever use my phone for "idle" time anymore, and certainly not "the" place I go to satisfy my need to spend time.
I struggled for some time with maintaining my own site (in profile), as it felt so disconnected from the conversation. Eventually I realized what I really wanted was a more customizable/flexible version of Twitter that could do things like host WASM - so I recreated my site to be more of a complement to Twitter threads rather than a standalone experience. The article author seems to be taking a strong stand against corporate web but I think a highly integrated yet fully owned personal site could be a good alternative approach.
How much bone would you expect to get on your knife from stabbing someone, vs scraping away meat from a bone?
I didn't. The comparison is that this is claimed to be cheaper than normal fuel extraction from the ground. But that relies on tech such as the permiable membrane developed from CNT, which AFAIK, no major breakthroughs have been made.

It's a bit like investment madness, in which investors are being swindled because no one is doing their due diligence to vet the tech and instead throwing money in a blind panic in FOMO.
I've had my personal domain since 1999. It was originally hand-coded HTML, but has been WordPress for at least the last eight years.

Back in 2014 I wrote a beginner's guide to C#, with the lessons building a very simple (non-graphical) role playing game. It was mostly to show the thinking behind starting out very simple, with the basics of objects, and eventually build a program that is larger and "complete".

It got a little popular and I've received quite a few messages/comments from people who've told me the lessons helped them understand things better in their programming courses at college or code camps. Those messages have been a lot more fulfilling than being coder #12 on $BigCo's multimillion-dollar, multi-year project.

It's also a nice thing to point to when interviewing. Just like a public GitHub repo, I doubt most interviewers take more than a cursory glance at it, but it is a way to stand out from the crowd of candidates who don't have a technical blog.

I've had times when I've burnt out and haven't posted for a year or more. Other times, I get a burst of energy and write every day. There is a bit of pressure to feel like I should be writing and posting. And, since I have programming guides, there are occasional support questions to answer (especially when Microsoft changes Visual Studio or moves from .NET Framework to .NET Core then to .NET 5/6). But, it usually doesn't take too long to deal with that.

On the technical side, it has been a bit of a pain to go through web hosts every few years. The hosting service eventually gets bought out, service quality goes down, or the site gets slow (and support says, "It looks OK to me"), etc.
Since win32 requires customizing the main event loop to handle e.g. non-modal dialogs, doesn't running nested event loops all over the place (which diverts the messages away from the custom main loop) break things like that?
I tend to be highly critical of the costs of interfaces that bring nested data structures into the equation, especially on the input layer. The moment you bring nesting into the equation, things become exponentially more complex. There's a reason relational databases are relational databases and not graph databases. Flat data structures bring a lot of simplicity in expectations. Two dimensions are easy to grasp. You can see at a glance if things are going right or wrong. You'll notice immediately.

The same goes for API interfaces. A one dimensional list of input parameters is easy to understand. The length of your input vector is equal to your degrees of freedom. Easy to understand. However, with a graph query, you can query literally anything in any dimension you want. _Sometimes_ that can be powerful, but more often, you want API contracts to be strict and simple. Simple REST endpoints will bring less surprises, are easier to document, easier to explain and easier to implement.

Sure, there is the cost of doing multiple queries. But for how many applications is the added complexity worth the cost? HTTP is getting faster everyday, especially with HTTP2 and HTTP3. Multiple queries aren't as much of a deal breaker as they were 10 years ago. In complex applications, simplicity and predictability are more important than minor performance improvements.
the store is able to compute it on the fly at the register, so they can also print price stickers* (for products that don't have the price on them)

showing prices without vat should be banned for sales that are never business-to-business.

* unless they also vary wildly by the week
This link should be pinned to the top of HN permanently: what a time saver!

I've impulsively opened up HN at least 5 times today, then closed the tab feeling shamed by this link haha.
> in development environments you would be foolish not to use the (vastly superior) tooling available.

I don't know. Learning and using a debugger adds an additional layer of cognitive load. Instead of thinking about the bug, you're thinking about using the debugger and trying to think about the bug. I have found their value to be limited with the code I normally write.
The class action was settled — which just means it was cheaper to settle than to fight in court, not that there was wrong doing. This kind of thing is very very common, and the settlement amount was modest in the scheme of class action settlements.

Plaid is pretty clear in their privacy policy that they DO NOT repackage and resell data (they do sell data - as in, when you use Plaid to give your banking info to a mortgage broker, the broker is paying Plaid for your data, but it is at your explicit request).

If banks didn't want Plaid to do screen scraping, they could build APIs. Some are now. But they've been VERY VERY reluctant to do so, because they want to hold customers (us!) hostage to their services and make it painful to go anywhere else to get financial services. I appreciate that Plaid figured out how to break their stranglehold, which has directly enabled the current blossoming of FinTech apps ... even if they had to do so in a way I don't love.
> If every time an IDE plugin encountered an unexpected situation it aborted the entire process it'd be insane.

What if a plugin developer used `System.exit(-1)` in their catch block. How's Intellij going to handle that?

A very popular eclipse plugin did this in past and would bring down the entire IDE when a particular exception happened.
Textbook except for the size of course. Very few LBOs are above $5 billion.
To me "truly new," as you keep using it, does imply something from nothing - some aspect of innovation or creative spark that doesn't simply involve the transformation of existing data or basis in existing knowledge. Otherwise, what is the difference between "truly new" and simply "new?"

>The idea that electrical transmission over wire is just a better smoke signal seems to deny the most basic differences between the two, or that there was any ingenuity or human contribution in the path from one to another.

No, I think we simply disagree on the nature of ingenuity. I argue that there is no aspect of human ingenuity or creativity that cannot be simulated by a machine of sufficient complexity because the human brain itself is simply a complex machine. It's just data processing - we do it every night when we dream. There's nothing ineffable separating the two that makes it possible for a human to innovate but impossible - even in theory - for a computer.
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.05.05-135023/https://nymag.com/intel...
Yeah it's kind of shocking how fast gay marriage turned around. Obama was against it start of first term.

I think that's part of why we are seeing such insane comments on here.

But tough. I wouldn't slow down progress just to placate or somehow reduce hate.
Emacs has supported lexical binding for almost a decade now and all the elisp files in Emacs itself use it. Most modern packages do too.
Chesterton's Fence...
Well put - and maybe also worth noting, that the same issue also applies to media formats.
I feel like the use of indexes is one of the least mysterious parts of databases performance.
Yeah good point. By "scale" I meant more like "numbers of elements" or something, size in that sense more than physical size, although I guess I was kind of thinking of them as similar. But you're right that space size and numbers of things size aren't necessarily the same.
You know what, you're right, I won't dispute his incapacity to correctly read the classics. I took offense to the attack on the question of falsifiability, which is philosophically miles ahead of anything else that came out of Europe in the last 2 centuries (barring, of course, wittgenstein himself)
I love it but I don't know how original it is. Tetris with physics like this is very common to implement as a project when learning Box2D.
Is it possible to make use of gravity sensor on phones?
Some of my impressions from when Romania joined EU:

- Old communist mines have closed due to environmental regulation. This is good, but it is regulation.

- Food must now be strictly labeled. Again good, but more regulation. For instance, milk has strict packaging regulations and can no longer be sold easily in farmer's markets. This drove the price up.

- Public infrastructure must meet certain standards in order to access EU funds. These regulations are again good. But certain local corrupt politicians fail to get their buddies' company to respect them, so they just use local funds.

- GDPR and EU copyright acts: these are more regulation, which I think is not so good. See my opinions here: https://danuker.go.ro/tag/eu.html
Then perhaps I misunderstood.

Michael E. Mann wrote "Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming". He lives in Amherst, at about 90 m elevation.

The "the actuality of sea level changes where they live" is zero for him, as there is no sea where he lives, and it would take a very large increase for it to reach him.

How is that data point relevant?
Nothing fancy, just an i5 4790k
You cannot possibly believe that this story not catching on during the height of the pandemic is a product of "randomness".
Ask HN: Low power home server hardware?
Im looking to consolidate some of my old pi's into a low power home server, something powerful enough to run KVM/QEMU/dockerless pods. it should be quiet as well maybe? does anyone have a recommendation for the HW spec? or maybe a product?
Congratulations on your new blog - if you already have content up consider posting it here.

I wrote [0] and [1] with people like you in mind:

[0] https://sheep.horse/2017/4/so_you_want_to_start_an_unpopular...

[1] https://sheep.horse/2017/4/some_additional_advice_for_those_...
This is so backwards, wrong, dangerous. And crazy that it is a comment on this forum.
Nothing here is untrue, but from my perspective it's overstated. I don't use discord, but I visit the forum daily, follow most of the RFCs, and spend a lot of time coding in Nim (https://github.com/dsrw/enu). I really like Nim, mostly like its community, and think many more people should be using it.

I'm sure fusion could have been handled better, and for 2021 the roadmap was a bit hazy, but I can't think of any other big missteps. Araq, dom, PMunch, and other senior folks are in the forms helping people and answering questions every day, and my interactions with all of them has been very positive. The big post 1.0 feature was arc/orc, and that was very well communicated. Bugs are being fixed, useful new features are being added, and future plans are being discussed in the open.

And Nim itself is great. The "if it compiles, it works" factor is high, yet I almost never feel like the compiler is fighting me. Simple things are simple (I'm teaching it to a group of 12 year olds), it's incredibly flexible, it's fast, and it's suitable for almost any sort of problem. There's nothing else like it, and I expect I'd continue using it for at least a decade even if it switched into maintenance mode tomorrow. I think it will take at least that long for something better to come along.
If you hammer away at the boxes such that it fills up the entire screen the weight of all those boxes is enough to crush the ones at the bottom.

Coolness to the max!
Non-sensical regulations, increasing extreme politics, continued economic problems (essentially none of the structural issues in 2012 are solved, the "solution" was: borrow more...it is worrying), lack of leadership in foreign policy...or lack of anything but self-serving nonsense (as with Iran, the EU leading the way on sanction-busting), increasing corporatism, heavy centralisation.

Fundamentally, the UK is just going in a different direction. Staying in the EU isn't helpful for the EU or the UK. But the EU approach of: you should be inside the tent pissing out rather than outside the tent being pissed on by us...is idiotic (if the history of the 20th century didn't tell you how that ended for Europe).

Those aren't recent. The data varies heavily by question asked, and tends not to consider the trend. People don't want a second referendum (they elected a govt on a significant majority on that basis, for some reason people tend to just ignore the fact that the public did have a second vote after 2016...the result was even more emphatic).
I'm not the person you asked but I try to keep my gems in bookmarks, would love to share some. Obviously I don't know your interests so take it for what you will. I have many more than I'll post here if you want some.

Some of this came from HN, some from elsewhere.

This website lists the first references to some cultural icons on Usenet (for example the first time AIDS was ever discussed, first mention of a new TV cartoon "The Simpsons", etc.)
http://www.eightyeightynine.com/culture/80susenet.html

The Public Domain Review, a collection and analysis of interesting stuff in the public domain
https://publicdomainreview.org/

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. I have spent many hours browsing the incredible content here.
https://www.davidrumsey.com/

Artvee. Free, high quality art.
https://artvee.com/

Restoration Mustang. A high quality long term journal of the restoration of a classic Mustang. Think like an /r/diy project but with way more detail and over a longer time scale.
https://restorationmustang.com/

The Renegade Gardener. Highly opinionated no-bullshit gardening advice. I especially love the "Don't Do That" section.
https://renegadegardener.com/

Garden Myths. There's a lot of misinformation and old wives' tales in gardening, this website cuts the crap.
https://www.gardenmyths.com/

Million Short is a search engine that lets you cut out the million (or 10,000 or 100,000) top results from a search, really good for finding gems. It also has an option for removing e-commerce websites from search which is a godsend.
https://millionshort.com/

This one is relevant if you live in New Zealand and love the outdoors: Can I Light a Fire?
https://www.checkitsalright.nz/can-i-light-a-fire
I'm with you. I was genuinely asking.
#HugOps from ex-Opsgenie SRE. I know the pressure you are on as a mission critical software that people depend on you with their alerts, exceptions etc. I left more than 6 months ago and still recovering from the responsibility toll.

You have a great history of availability and would like to say congrats.
The purpose of this exercise is ensuring sufficient diversity among the managerial class that’s outsourcing the jobs of working class Americans—white, Black, and Hispanic alike—to China. It’s naked class warfare disguised as social justice.
That’s the path I ended up taking. The GraphQL resolvers had no idea idea there was a database. They talked to a layer that understood all the business objects and that sat on top of a layer that understood authorization and only that layer had any connection to the data store.
Question-- So I'm not a finance quant or anywhere near conversant in the intricacies of finance, so I really don't understand what seems to be an important question:

Why do banks have to follow the federal rate for certain types of loans? IIRC the rate is used for interbank loans against federal reserve deposit requirements, but why would they follow the Fed rate for this rather than some other market force? I don't think it's required by statute (is it?).

What, if anything, prevents banks from ignoring federal benchmark rates all together?
could not agree more with this. social media exists out there, but spouse and kids are right in front of you each and every day. when done correctly, seeing the growth of your family and spending time with them can be extremely rewarding, even more than the dopamine produced by interacting with the social media
> Isn't UK controlled by the very problematic far-right since Brexit

no, the Conservatives are centre right, and very much left of the democrats

> Wasn't Farage(far righter) who caused issues in the EU up until he lost his position

no, his party never managed anything other than annoying the people running the parliament
I wanted to keep my post short so I didn't list all of the ways I feel we express this tendency. Others mentioned podcasts and talk radio but Youtube and Twitch are great examples. There is no denying that people who watch creators like Mizkif are feeling like they are part of a group of friends. Ludwig called it out most famously in his parasocial video [1]. It is so well known it is already a hackneyed meme.

Sometimes I feel smug looking down on people who become obsessed with the latest Kardashian drama or the British Royal Family or whatever celebrity culture. But then I turn a critical eye on myself and I'll realize I spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos on woodworking, small engine repair and outdoor activities. I don't do any of these things and I tend to watch the same creators over and over again.

Some people want to feel like they have hyper-crazy friends like Jake Paul who live wild fantasy lifestyles. I'm not certain that is different than me watching videos of some guy quietly building a log cabin on his own in the woods.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzyQbfh4t_8
> The whole thing was invented by a "software consulting" firm

I don't know the whole origin story. It definitely does feel like something Martin Fowler would come up with. But I blame Google for really making it a trend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ea3pkTCYx4

And you can see they understand the whole problem with microservices. It's the same thing The Mythical Man-Month was trying to tell everyone decades ago[1]

> When n people have to communicate among themselves, as n increases, their output decreases

Microservices exasperates this. It is the Multics model. Each microservice implements its own, often wildly different, API. Which every bit of code that needs to use that microservice has to go and implement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
>it seemed to be so much drivel. It seemed to be dangerously verging on "14 words"

Blithely dismissing cultural practices which may lead to successful and flourishing societies merely because some of them also happen to be espoused by white supremacists is more dangerous.
As an outside observer (in the US), my impression has been that this is largely due to the idea that adding another level in the bureaucratic hierarchy (local > regional > national > now also EU) fundamentally means adding more red tape.

Also that a lot of the complaining is coming from the same kinds of people who want government, in general, to be "so small you can drown it in a bathtub", which viewpoint I never really have a lot of time for.
Even an investor who has full faith in the crypto industry might not want to invest in a company deriving significant revenue from selling GPU mining hardware, because if the long-announced switch of Ethereum from proof of work to proof of stake ever happens, that revenue might drop massively, as other chains seem much smaller and/or less lucrative: https://whattomine.com
ADD/ADHD are very much a spectrum. If someone is having trouble focusing for a few hours a day, even if it’s not literal days on end, I don’t think it’s crazy to investigate ADD/ADHD as the cause/name of the problem.
I actually now track my reading using Kanban. Books I've decided to read go in to Pending. When I actively start reading one it moves into In Progress and when I complete it it moves into Done.

I limit my actively being read books down so that I've never got more than 2 on the go at once, though quite often I'll only have one being actively read.

It has certainly made a difference for me, as I now get through about 60 books each year.

If you're wanting to read shorter fiction books then try looking at some of the older classics, as they tend to be a lot shorter than modern books.
~50% increase in firearm deaths: https://www.statista.com/statistics/258913/number-of-firearm...

Major increase in pedestrian deaths and general trend away from walking: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...

~4x increase in obesity: https://www.americashealthrankings.org/learn/news/obesity-th...

Major decrease in upward mobility through socioeconomic status: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...

...and a general deterioration of civic institutions, shared culture, and mental health.

Aside from the data, it's subjectively a more fractured and less pleasant country.
Nit: I think you meant "I don't think anyone would dispute that it's a blow".

Saying "I don't think anyone would argue that X" means "I don't think anyone thinks X".
> This isn’t populist rhetoric, it’s the Fed’s own data.

It's sad the author feels they even need this disclaimer. Its interesting how much gets lumped into a political cause (that requires inheriting all associated political causes of that party).
"Learning how to program has been hard so far"

Anyone with experience in programming will find Python trivial.

Learning to program is a difficult task. There's a large of concepts and structures to understand. You also have to learn how to be creative and conservative with your approach to a problem.
Yeah, looking back it is strange that so many things are some how associated with religion or status. It does make sense with jewellery and some burial goods.

But at time why would something new and not useful be a status item? And if it was useful, but rare surely it will get lot of use? Good working cutting tools is extremely useful thing.
The tech equivalent of "half baked" is "Beta" software.

This was frequent term used in the 2000s.

"MVP" software is the modern day equivalent of half-bake/beta.
You definitely took a lot of risks, I’ve interviewed with a few foreign companies and never even considered canceling my lease or quitting my job until I had an offer in hand or was told it was imminent.

If you are moving to another country, often companies will give you flexibility on when you’d start with them based on the fact that you are moving. Some will have you work on site before your move and then let you go back and take care of your move. Others won’t do that but will give you time to adjust everything.

Leases are also flexible depending on what state you live in (if you are in the US), in some cases leaving the state or country the landlord or leasing company may be more flexible (it also depends on how hot the market is for them to lease it when you leave).

Never break your safety net until you have the job would be the best advice summing up the above.