skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is much more capable than the things you mentioned. It can do technical documents up to thesis writing, with citations, references both document internal and external, have code blocks, which can be run, using multiple langs per file, use output of one as input for the other, spreadsheets with a whole programming lang or GNU calc behind them, per formula of course, not only per spreadsheet, it can schedule events, it can use library of babel, it can do literate programming, ...

Need I say anything more?
I really don't understand why anyone wants algorithmic stable coins. It really just seems like the worst of both worlds. If you want a crypto asset that correlates with USD, why not buy something like USDC that's actually... you know, backed by USD?
I think if states become more heterogenous (and SCOTUS seems to be on that wavelength) the idea is "if you don't like the new laws, relocate". Which sounds great; more diversity of laws, more states that are likely to fit my values more closely.

But this impacts poor people disproportionately. If you're poor it'll be hard or impossible to relocate.
Yes, I quit meat once I realized the sheer scale of the environmental and suffering footprint it had.
But with crypto there's absolutely no fundamental information.

For the market, people can choose what bundle of companies you think move it.

With crypto, the best you can say is "well, this ponzi scheme only got a few scammers involved"
if you live in NYC as a high earner, you already have some of the highest tax rates in the country. A lot of people who are high earners in NYC make their money through w2 income, so there's no way to avoid paying ~50% in taxes.

Anecdotally, I know so many people in this >1M "high earning" bracket who have moved out of NYC to Austin/Miami/Tampa/Seattle in the last couple of years. Especially now that remote work is a viable choice at many companies. Every year you're saving somewhere between 8-10% in taxes, which is upwards of 100k/year.

Whatever your stance on higher taxes for the wealthy are, as long as viable alternative locations exist in the USA where there is such a massive discrepancy in the taxes, you're not going to be able to raise more revenue in NYS/NYC by simply raising the marginal tax rate for the highest earners.

If they actually increased taxes to fund this, I highly doubt they will be able to raise additional revenue, and the primary effect will be driving up home prices even further in the tax-free cities above
So would you propose an independent third part to evaluate all these various things, and see which ones are, say, backed by fundamentals?

How would you do that evaluation yourself, if it was your job?

I'm assuming that you don't intend your point to be "the only difference is that in the 2008 example, someone who should've called bullshit fucked up, and this time nobody is officially supposed to call bullshit, you're supposed to do it yourself."
Yes, it does take a few minutes to cook a steak in the microwave you can buy at the thrift store for $10. About 3 minutes to fry a couple eggs.

I throw fresh veggies into the blender, grind them up, and drink them.

I'm a very lazy man, and spend very little time preparing healthy meals.
> Like the US dollar

We're going on 10+ years of failed cryptoscams now and people on the internet are still saying goofy stuff like this as if it has any meaning whatsoever in the real world or are in any way similar.
Because it being backed by actual USD also means it's subject to the reach of the US federal government. That means your funds can potentially be arbitrarily frozen/seized.
Any (relatively easy) way we can try virtual threads out yet?
75 handle now... EDIT: 71 now. It's a bloodbath; people can't get out fast enough, there's no price support at all.
> If you read the smart contract code, misunderstood how it worked, proceeded to invest anyways, and then it blew up, that sounds like something that's on you.

Not a software engineer or information security professional I gather...
I assume the bots, who ultimately control movements, are programmed to follow arbitrary round numbers assuming stupid humans trade more.
The author can do what they want, but if they care what associations people have about the name and they didn't consider this, they now have new information.
One of the issues with poverty and obesity is that a lot of people seem to think and argue poor people can’t afford healthy food.

While there are some poor groups who cannot get any frozen vegetables or unprocessed of any sort without going into debt or becoming homeless or just not having access, I think they are the minority. Frozen vegetables, canned beans and meat, eggs, etc. are very healthy, very cheap, and ubiquitous even in mini-marts. Almost everyone can eat healthy if they really prioritize it.

The main issue is that when you’re poor, you don’t prioritize healthy foods. You have stress and much bigger things to worry about, you’re more concerned with having food than having quality food. While its possible to buy healthy, it requires finding a way to get to the grocery store and save a few dollars somewhere else. And then, the payoff is that maybe it will make you healthier, but maybe not even, because the additional stress and undiagnosed health issues may cancel it out. To top it off, the foods I mentioned - canned and frozen vegetables - are boring and not particularly tasty. If you want to make healthy food which “tastes good”, you need to spend significantly more time money: you need to go to fancier stores, pay more, actually cook the food, and make sure it doesn’t go bad.

So just giving poor people theoretical access to healthy food isn’t enough. You need to encourage healthy food with discounts, make it more accessible, teach people what is healthy, and why eating healthy food is important. And on top of that, eating healthy needs to actually be important vs. the other priorities people are dealing with.
Once you have that constraint, it means you will either have the same network latency when writing to SQLite (if it is fronted by some lightweight proxy), or have a lot more frequent failover of SQLite (if it is running embedded within the app, thus following the app's deployment schedule).

I suppose if someone decides to deploy Postgres/MySQL replicas as a sidecar, then it will be the same as what you will end up with?
Archived: https://archive.ph/Ygt7b
Pretty much every comment that mentioned this was flagged in the year 2020 well into 2021 on HN.

It was overwhelmingly clear.
After both sides have gotten a given number of acknowledgement of the acknowledgement of the acknowledgement ... of the acknowledgement: isn't it obvious that the original message was delivered?
Elsewhere in this thread he says "the project was acquired" which is more or less "Fly.io Buys Litestream" (the submitted title).

I'm honestly not sure whether we should change it or not - minimizing complaints is the goal - what's it called when a function has two points that it keeps unstably jumping between?
Looks neat, I'll check this out.

For a project I currently have, I am parititioning not only the database but also the software for each "customer" (let's call them that for now), so basically I have my single-threaded Python application that uses SQLite and put that in a container with Litestream and run one of those containers for each customer on one or more kubernetes clusters or on anything else that runs a container (or you can run the software directly). Then you can take the data from one to N of those customers and aggregate it and process it for monitoring and central configuration control and backup with another bit of software that does a distributed query on the S3 data that Litestream is saving. I can also control several of the systems in a coordinated way, if needed, by linking them together in a configuration file and letting them elect a leader that will be the central point of contact for a source of "work" (let's call it that for now) and then that leader can notify the other instances of the work to be done and help to dole out that work in a reasonable manner based on the resources and capabilities of the aggregation.

A few similar projects I worked on that were centralized were a huge mess in both the database and the codebase due to trying to do the same thing for thousands of customers with several dozen horizontal-scaling services that had to be coordinated. In my system, I just write one single-threaded bit of software that does the whole thing, but just for one customer at a time, so the whole system is horizontally scaleable instead of just each service within the system. I can still do the same things to aggregate data from the individual customer software units, and as described above I can still add coordination features for groups of individual customer units, so there is no loss in features, but the whole system is simple to reason and think about with none of the usual synchronization pitfalls you get in the usual distributed system.
Not just that, you can sign directly on the trackpad. And store that signature for later use.
What a ridiculous marketing term. This is a RYW (Read your writes) level of consistency which is a far cry from Strong consistency (see https://jepsen.io/consistency). Seems like eventual consistency with some affinity bolted on.
> NPE

Sorry, what that?

Realise this is not OP.
I'm of a similar vintage and original web background to Kottke. I don't habitually read his site but I've been aware of him for decades and my wife is a subscriber. I'm my own boss, but where he got into blogging, I mostly stayed on the web treadmill which has been a grind for 20+ years.

But while I work a lot and have a few struggling fiddle leaf figs myself, I don't feel burnt out. A few years ago I lucked onto a hobby that makes me some money but most importantly gets me away from the desk. I'm guessing he needs the same.

His existence is browsing the web! A few minutes of searching would suggest some options: repot the plant, prune and/or notch it. Or depending on the house, move it outside. Or give it away and start another one or another type of plant. Because as others have suggested, the plant is the perfect parallel - he needs a bigger pot, he should get away and outside. Take the kids away any chance you can get. Organise a family trip with whoever can make it, because sometimes if you wait until everyone's available, you will be waiting for years.

I'm assuming he shares custody of the kids which might tie him down a bit, but other than that, if anyone has the freedom to explore new pursuits and take little energising trips, it's surely a blogger writing about things they find online?
My theory, for which I have no evidence beyond subjective observations, is that Trump jumped on a burgeoning trend (that behavior was trendy before Trump's election, and similar patterns predate him in other countries) and pushed the country over the edge. Many people I know who despise Trump seem to follow his lead in their behavior.
Everyone knows USDT is a problem. The issue is that exchanges refuse to stop accepting it.
Programmers
No.

A patent covers a way of doing things.

An essential patent covers the way of doing things.

Essential patents in general fail the obviousness test; they cover the solution that most experts in the field would reach in solving the given problem.
I’ve been carrying around the same 20 or so line .emacs that I use with a plain stock emacs for about 15 years. I’m happily productive without a bunch of tweaking. Same with vim: tiny vimrc that I carry around along with one old package that is hard to find online anymore.

In both cases I probably add to or tweak them about once a year.

It’s not a tools fault if you can’t resist tweaking it. If anything, that indicates that you’re not actually optimizing a workflow if that optimization step is actively disrupting a workflow. Self discipline is a good thing to build up for workflow optimization, far more than any tweak to a dotfile.
It’s not just StarLink. SpaceX already has a pentagon contract to develop or revive the Prompt Global Strike program. It’s called something else now. Basically,to use SpaceX launch capabilities to a hit a target anywhere on the planet using conventional payloads on short notice. Something that’s currently done using the B-2 bombers and several hours of transit time to target.
Ahhh, thanks for posting this - this happened to me one time, and I couldn’t figure out that bit of the scam (access to a sufficient number of tracking numbers where they can point to a seemingly matching shipment).

I bought a home automation device from a dodgy site at a price I knew was too good to be true. Needless to say, I never got it, and when I filed a dispute with PayPal, the buyer “substantiated” the shipment with a tracking number. I, of course, never got the package, nor did I get a refund.

There were all kinds of inconsistencies with the seller’s response (as I recall, their first response was that it had already been shipped, and when I escalated it, the tracking number was for an item that didn’t ship until after my dispute), but it was facially good enough for PayPal so the scammer made $60 off me. Live and learn.
It sounds like a bug.

Yeah, from subsequent posts (including by CF employees) it sounds like that is indeed that case. That's heartening to hear. It would have been rather disappointing to think that they are outright blocking "non mainstream" browsers or something.
Show HN: Susan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics (1984)
That's not what I said. You've done this twice now, and I really wish you would respect the good faith principal others in this community value. I'll leave it at that.
They're not cheap, but Antigravity batteries (1) implement that. It monitors battery voltage and disconnects when it reaches a given level. To start the car you just press a button on a fob to internally connect to the reserve, and off you go. Doubly useful for Lithium batteries since they really don't like being over-discharged.

1: https://antigravitybatteries.com/
I usually leave the JIRA ticket number (which links back to the ticket) as the “why”
I think we as professionals tend to overestimate how difficult the basics are for people.

I'm certainly guilty of this ("how much can boot camp really teach you") despite the fact that I saw many non programmers learn how to reliably program (as long as sufficient examples were around) games via LPMUD. LPC taught an entire generation of non-technical people how to program and nobody even realized it was doing it. Sure it wasn't "great" code, they often needed assistance, and they'd never be engineers, but it was all working game data.
> Right now UST is at $0.81

$0.72 on Coinbase.

But to be fair, the last 5 minutes have been brutal...
"Despite all of that, people who bought and held a total market or S&P 500 index fund in 2020 have still made gains."

For now.
This is wrong because you’re not considering the whole picture:

- to turn the JSON into HTML, you not only need the template you mentioned, you also need code to execute that template (potentially lots of it); preact is 10KB ungzipped (other frameworks, like React/Angular/Ember, are way larger), so your HTML solution is already 10,000 characters ahead (by comparison, the markup you demoed is ~90 bytes per book, so you’re ahead until at least ~100 books on the page, without considering the framework, your code, and the following points)

- HTML compresses amazingly well because it’s repetitive so the overhead is less than you think

- HTML stream renders, so you can start rendering the first book immediately; JSON streaming is technically possible, but not built-in, and quite difficult to implement (and it requires even more JS)

- the same KB of JS is way more expensive than it would be as HTML (or images) because parsing, compiling, and executing is slow

- latency is often a larger problem than bandwidth, especially on mobile, so saving bandwidth is less important than (a) streaming and (b) client-side blocking time

- a large number of users visit one page and bounce, for typical websites, so the promised savings once the SPA is live doesn’t materialize

- the naive way to implement a SPA is _full_ of footguns; first of all, you’d naively load the template for all the pages, making the overhead problem even worse, naively you wouldn’t render anything until the JS has arrived, delaying the TTFMP enormously, naively you’d mess up routing, etc.

- it’s relatively trivial to preload/precache HTML pages, including in a service worker to support offline, making performance on par or better than a SPA

I happily work on a huge SPA daily, for context.
In my new BBC Radio 4 documentary …

There it is. It’s an advertisement for a documentary masquerading as a news article.
This isn’t quite right. While AV1 is “open”, patent holders have still claimed patents covering aspects of it. So there are still issues with trying to use/distribute it as those patent holders can still claim infringement. Linux is another example of this.
"grocers have become amazingly good at selling us exactly the kinds of foods we want to buy"

...and what people want to buy is in no small part determined by advertising.

Peer pressure and tradition figure in to this too.
OK, but I think if you announce "super good quality" or similar, people are going to zoom in and look at your pictures. Artifacts should be explained to head off confusion?
but also ensure my content is not a target of DDOS, I expect and pay them to "dictate what browsers are permitted to access" my website.

But those two issues are orthogonal. Assuming a non-DDOS scenario, do you really want to keep users or specific browsers out just because of their choice of browser?

Anyway, the update from CF seems to clarify that they aren't just blindingly blocking specific User Agents for the most part, which strikes me as a Good Thing.
$3.5B bet on Bitcoin becoming a reserve currency for crypto put to test
Apache Flink Deployments at Decodable
The immediate effect is that money is transferred from people who are bad at predicting the future to people who are good at predicting the future. Not in every case, of course, but in aggregate. This is probably good for society, as it puts more capital in the hands of people who will invest in things that succeed rather than things that fail.
cpu-used is (somewhat confusingly) not for how many threads it uses, but how good the quality of the video should be in a scale from 0 to 9, where 0 is best quality and slowest, and 9 is worst quality and fastest. Very similar to how -preset was used for x264.

https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/community/wiki#how-to-make-e... explains the different settings that most change the speed of encoding.
Most of the smart contract system has been based on the assumption that contract termination/violation is not possible. This effectively ignores counter party risk.

If the luna coin collapses UST will start exponentially inflating the supply of luna. If UST users are trying to get out, then the price may go to zero. You can't correct the stable coin by printing coins with zero value.
The video interview at the bottom of the article discusses the source of capital for this enterprise to "keep" the peg. The interviewee claims that the source of the capital was basically a crowdfund. The team issued a lot of the tokens, kept a lot of it (about 1/2), and sold the rest. Perpetual motion is possible in finance, but you need fancy licenses and government appointments to do it. These guys are going to prison.

This thing isn't just one token, but apparently at least three. One of them (Anchor) claims a 20% yield on savings. This alone should be a red flag because that's about 1900 basis points above what you can expect to get from a good savings account or short-term treasury.

I don't have time to dive into the Rube Goldberg machine that this thing appears to be, but when it ends, it will end very badly.

Every Bitcoin era seems to have its Ponzi scheme. In 2017 it was BitConnect. They offered something very similar to what Anchor appears to be offering.
The funny (or sad) thing is, "small" firms that are hedge funds also managed to apply and because they often have tax accountants on retainer, they had an easy time doing the paperwork!
40% of Bitcoin investors are now underwater, new data shows
> By default, cells rerun whenever its code changes or an input reruns, like a spreadsheet!

This is transformational — I’ve been using Pluto.jl a lot lately for prototyping library code and doing data analysis. Now when I work in python I find myself really missing that reactivity. The closest thing I’ve found is streamlit, which is cool but not quite as liberating IMO

Can’t wait to try it!
The domain name gives me the feeling that this may not be a totally unbiased review.
I posted a few months ago that when people realize their stablecoins are not so stable, the game's half up. usdt is also an obvious fraud, as is almost all of crypto right now.

Most people have no understanding of the hidden leverage built up in the system and how a small margin call in a negative sentiment env could easily trigger a 80-90% draw down.

You should have cashed out/been buying high quality real estate for the past 6-8 months but if you haven't been doing that, it's still not too late to get out.
Thanks for the correction and source.
I didn't look too closely at this but Ansible offers a number of guarantees such as idempotency, locking, etc. If this thing is just people wrapping their shell scripts in on of the functions this thing executes then it's automatically worse than just using Ansible. Because nobody is going to care to make their script...good.
Wait, Bitcoin has 6% of the market cap of gold? That's really impressive. More than I expected Bitcoin to achieve, in fact.
Just noticed how ridiculously wrong this comment on the previous thread is:

> I have to wonder how many of these morality spirals aren't instigated by actual trolls.

> An example of this was the explosion of transgender issues into the mainstream soon after gay marriage was legalized. I recall reading a fringe right-wing blogger about the "lesbian vs transgender conflict", a few years before the "T" in LGBT became more prominent. This prominence may well have been engineered by trolls in an attempt to alienate a group of people who were rapidly being accepted into mainstream society.

Funny how this "troll" managed to somehow also coincide with the opinions of countless lesbians and radical feminists, who have been speaking and writing about this topic for many years.

That is, in the above instance, in terms of homosexuality being defined as a same-sex sexual orientation, and the inherent conflict in attempting to replace it with the concept of "same gender identity" attraction. With so-called "genital preferences" being an act of bigotry. It's incredibly homophobic ideology, in that particular purity spiral.
> What about the people losing money?

try not to, as with everything else.

> Also, that statement implies that these are all honest efforts, not scams.

it doesn't imply that at all. it implies that its an individual discernment issue. anybody can still go blow it all on a casino or Reg CF securities offerings, unless they are richer, then they have a few additional choices to blow it all.
There are 57 of them. :)
Lol! First thought was ice cream and apple pie. "s" vs "ss", sigh ...
Oh I dunno, Russian generals in particular may be concerned about the lowly 300 model.
This fits with my recent experience. I've spent the last 2 months working on a large open-source Rust project, and it's been mostly easy; I make self-contained changes that fit into the existing architecture and I don't have to think too much about lifetimes or the borrow checker. But when I go off-track and work on my own Rust projects, things get a lot harder.
> For example, I use my affordable car almost exclusively for work but it's not worth the trouble to track it for deductions because I still do best with standard deduction

That's not how business expenses work. Talk to an accountant, you're leaving money on the table.