skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> multiple app instances in that region can connect to that Postgres leader, so it's easy to do a typical rolling deploy

This is mentioned as a drawback at towards the end of the blogpost, isn't it? It does seem it would make deployments rather awkward.
Interesting about the relation between WebM and MKV found in google search:

"Many Web browsers support WebM, which is a restricted version of MKV. The most important restriction is in the allowed video codecs. WebM video uses only the VP8 and VP9 codecs, which are open and royalty-free. All WebM files are MKV files, but not all MKV files are consistent with WebM"

So the question comes back to supported codec moreso than container format.
I suppose only time will tell. But as someone who keeps up very closely with local news and politics in a decidedly “purple” area, I have seen no evidence of this so far.
We need something for you for sure, but it may not be blockchain, possibly not even crypto.
> Money earned through immoral means is actually respected as hustle.

This is utter bullshit.
Yes and no. You might not have cash to spare (especially in such a volatile period). Also, investing more might exceed your exposure limit to a single stock/industry.
People blogging about it tend to show how to configure it. People just using it don't blog since nothing interesting to talk about when things are working great.
Or if it actually creates wealth like real companies.
I think this is more of a beta issue than alpha.

You'd have to normalize of the giant tidal waves of financial flows to see of YC IPOs are good or bad thing in reality.
This is Apple TV+ strategy too. Though there have still been some expensive looking clunkers.
My understanding is that some stablecoin projects do that. The issue is greed, it’s too tempting to invest the money in something riskier and keep all of the returns. When you lose the money you have nothing to defend the peg with.
If I were going to give something to every household in the US, it would be a rice cooker. I made fun of these before I had one -- how hard is it to cook rice? -- but when it comes down to it, they just make everything so much easier. You can pretty much make any rice-like-thing in it, too: oatmeal, quinoa... and you literally cannot fuck it up. 2:1 water:rice, any setting, cook -- done.
Almost everyone I know likes to have an expected response when pressing a button.

In fact, I don't know anyone that doesn't.
One of the main advantages would be hardware accelerated encode/decode, but because every manufacturer supports it differently most software refuses to use it. And once you go to software encoding, why not use a more efficient and open codec.
I think this is baby out with the bath water situation. Its an expensive stock but for good reason. Network lock in, strong durable brand, sound business model, product oriented. In the right sector where travel demand picks up and work flexibility has opened more of the market.

Disclosure: i just loaded up on this today
UC and CSU are unaffordable, and a 4-year degree isn’t the only way to succeed
> I wish therapy were more accessible and better regulated.

Those are incompatible wishes. More regulation automatically leads to higher costs. Enforcing the “right” training and hence ideology also doesn’t help when the only thing that has an effect on therapeutic effectiveness is the extent to which a therapist and client vibe with each other.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_relationship#
My father managed an Eddie Bauer flagship in the 70s, and they sold shotguns and climbing gear, as well as camping and fishing equipment. He considered A&F their primary competitor, which is how I learned that history.
Yeah agree, at least in the case of a crypto which is literally just $ in -> coin out, no caveats, hold the $ and do nothing with it till withdrawal.

My impression is that many pegs don't work this way, but to the extent one did I kind of don't see how it could fail?
> which are algorithmic rather than backed. (Although they are now trying to back it, but that's not how it's designed.)

genuine question, why are trying to do when it's covered by the 'algorithm'?
Um...it's obviously telling you that Linux is just very unsafe. Every MSDN knows this: it's one of the first things they read when opening up the Tome of Knowledge.

Best to re-install Windows 11. Be sure to beg forgiveness of the Microsoft gods by secure-deleting a copy of the Halloween Documents while chanting the true name of the Great Bill over the chorus of Bing bells.
Fun fact the Hubble space telescope and now the James Webb uses NeXT computers to calibrate some of the instruments on the ground. Possibly even to test out configuration changes.

In particular they’re used for the Aberrated Beam Analyser. The ABA has been used to verify the optical performance of many
different science instruments.
You can press M-x (or the equivalent in your emacs distro, e.g. Spc-: in doom) and run `help-with-tutorial`
The graph shows until this Feb. JPY has been plunged about 13% recently, and even without it import energy/food/everything price is increasing for obvious reason. Let's see whether salary catch up (I doubt).
Looking forward to ditching my PlanetScale plans for this!

> ...people use Litestream today is to replicate their SQLite database to S3 (it's remarkably cheap for most SQLite databases to live-replicate to S3).

Cloudflare R2 would make that even cheaper. Cloudflare set to open beta registration this week.

And if you squint just enough, you'd see R2, S3 et al are nosql KV store themselves, masquerading as disk drives, and used here to back-up a sql db...

> My claim is this: by building reliable, easy-to-use replication for SQLite, we make it attractive for all kinds of full-stack applications to run entirely on SQLite.

Disruption (? [0]) playing out as expected? That said, the world reliable is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Reliability in distributed systems is hard (well... easy if your definition of reliability is different ;) [1])

> And if you don't need the Postgres features, they're a liability.

Reminds me of WireGuard, and how it accomplishes so much more by doing so much less [2].

Congratulations Ben (but really, could have taken a chance with heavybit)!

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[0] https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation

[1] God help me, the person on the orange site saying they need to run Jepson tests to verify Litestream WAL-shipping. Stand back! You don’t want to get barium sulfated!, https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1510066302530072580

[2] "...there’s something like 100 times less code to implement WireGuard than to implement IPsec. Like, that is very hard to believe, but it is actually the case. And that made it something really powerful to build on top of*, https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...
Why would you want buy something at a higher price than a lower price? I only care about high prices when I am selling.
I really like how this works with alfred. Thanks!
MakerDAO seems sketchy. A bunch of participants have filed a class action lawsuit.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/09/29/28m-makerdao-blac...

At any rate, I don't think most people really have the skills to discern what is and is not a grift in the cryptocurrency space. Best to assume they all are, unless you can basically read and grok all the code and fine print.
USD is dead, CIA ended their crypto experiment and are ready to push their digital USD"
This is really slick! Wow!
Good time to change jobs and lock in a strike price?
Well its not really a peg, more of a pigeon hole and when the pigeon goes in the hole we peg it, its pretty messy to be honest but we aren't really interested in pigeon holes are we? No, we are interested in pegging.
Sure you should have a diversified portfolio but everything is also on discount. Warren Buffet went on a buying spree. If you don't have cash to spare thinking about investing isn't what you should focus on but instead doing basic financial wellness like having a savings account. Also cash has been outperforming the market so far so cash isn't necessarily a bad investment.
Can you expand on that? What has it to do with racism?
> It’s important to be skeptical of scientific claims. This is essentially the core engine of scientific progress.

This often gets abused. Laymen frequently will doubt scientific results and then make exactly this argument. That's a totally different breast than someone dedicating years of studies to understand the state of the art in a scientific field and THEN doubting results. Otherwise we can never move past agreeing even on fundamentals

Edit: to add an example, in college I had a friend who didn't believe black holes were really a singularity and that something else might be going on. He wasn't able to explain beyond "feels wrong". When I called out that if he doesn't even have a coherent explanation why he maybe should shut up and trust experts everyone got angry because "scepticism is fundamental to scientific process". Sure, you doubt it. Fine! Hey a PhD in physics and proof your point!
These algorithmic stablecoins are just the CDO reinvented.

You slice up the risk into different pools and play funny games with the risk. You can therefore build an AAA bond out of subprime mortgage crap, and everything is fine

Well, except for 2008 but who was paying attention to that anyway?
For me it’s rather spiky, like with Linux. There will be once or twice a year I go deep in trying new configurations, messing with existing ones, and so on. The rest of the time it’s just using it.
> Wow this is the first time I've ever seen a comment that genuinely made me feel like an old gray beard.

Here's a nickel, kid...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQView
Yep, I purchased COIN at IPO as a proxy for BTC and other crypto. Don’t expect it to recover until cryptocurrencies do, may be a while…
> - Covid stimulus going to people who didn't need it

Bit of a spicy opinion... (but perfectly accurate)
“We’re about six years into this, and we’re just now building the actual project we intended to build,” Purdy said. “It’s the longest road to a minimal viable product you’ve ever heard of!”
Haskell development with the haskell language server is pretty nice in emacs I think
I think people bought into the idea because they were selling shovels in a gold rush.
This is like saying simply rsync'ing the database file is "not just SQLite". Sure, in one particularly unuseful parsing of the words "just SQLite".
my bad. I shouldn't have assumed gender.
You’re talking about economic profit, not accounting profits. Accounting profits just take the use of capital that can be employed at normal rates of return.
Are you by any chance a young-earth creationist?
It's beautiful. I can't wait until someone gets time on it to point it at some of the known exoplanets to study them at a higher resolution than was possible so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...
I also own NET and will likely be treating this dip as an opportunity to load up more.
First, I’m not a professional economic policy person so I assume they will have much better ideas.

But we could have put rules in place that were enforced retroactively. Something like “you get $600 if you lost your job. Everyone who asks gets it. But when you file your taxes if you didn’t lose your job and you took the money, you have to pay it back.” Stuff like that.

I worked for a consulting company that had a pretty smart expense approval process. They approved everything and audited you severely when you went up for partner. It wasn’t perfect, but it was pretty close as people were really nervous and conservative even though they wouldn’t be audited until years later.

There was also a lot of stuff where unemployment paid more than working so there were perverse incentives to not work and make more money. I had a family member who normally made about$2k/month. He got $600/week in unemployment so took a long time to go back while making an extra $500 per month. Stupidly, he bought a car with the extra money (but he’s been able to keep making the payments).

Just having some cap that paid 80% of your salary in unemployment would have been super simple to implement.

Or some programs ran for over a year. So the emergency stuff could have phased out after 3 months or 6 months.

There’s lots of ways they could have designed interventions much better.
Nice. Has anyone used it on a C++ project (or any project for that matter)? It is any good?
Good point. But does Cloudflare have a moat? Seems like AWS or some other service could start competing directly with them if they wanted to.
> As long as you don’t spend the money people give you

Yeah, this is somewhat hard to do, especially if you want...

> Then you can earn interest on the dollars.

to be true for a meaningful amount of money.

This also assumes that you originally had the dollars to back the stable coin in the first place, which is a somewhat dubious assertion for many purported stable coins.
> I think we'll discover before the end of this year just how many of the tech darlings were largely side effects of the poisonous sandbox constructed by the US fed

?? Poisonous sandbox?

Is this an awkward way of referring to money printing? Or the low interest rate environment?
Directing specific queries to a write connection (dbserver) vs directing requests to specific application servers (potentially mid-request) does seem operationally “harder” though.

I’m coming at this from the perspective of a traditional django app that has .using(“write”) when wanting to write data. Otherwise you’re replaying requests at a completely different app server.

Am I understanding this correctly?
You can have similar sentiments towards a lot of the companies. For example zoom, twilio come to mind. Point is all of them across the board have been inflated.
Pseudo science will be here forever because it is much easier to get into than actual science and people will always look for explanations where science says 'we don't know'.
On the other hand, real yield is barely 0% and both nominal and real yield curves are still positive and in fact steepening. E/P should be compared to the real yield.
The US already spends more than double what Canada spends per capita. If we had the cost efficiency of Canada's health care system, we could by double the health care without spending more than we already do.
Nope, I’m going to NYC soon for the first time since 2000… Times Square is not on my bucket list but I will keep an eye out!
Buying stuff drives prices up and contributes to inflation, not cures. There’s the same amount of stuff but more cash, so prices go up.
A sample usage just yesterday. I needed to rename a field name of a struct in Rust. I hit a key shortcut for lsp-rename and it renames the field plus all the references in all the files in the project. I know it's just basic refactoring and some IDE's support it, but it's generic across all languages.
More room for roots, and a bracing system will help. (and it will help the plant).
if language is hard to read, hard to write, and slow to compile

it creates problems when you need to push fix to prod ASAP, or when you need to train new employees

reason why go is popular and is the cloud native language

there is still the need of a go like language for native world, i personally believe Zig is the answser, another close one is Odin, it's definitely not rust
Long term these things can loose 100% of their value.

That is an actual possibility.
Yeah. If a European country who is poorer than NY with a population of 20 million can fund universal healthcare, NY should be able to also.
They generate a lot of their revenue from a fee percentage for every transaction, so it really shouldn't affect them on crypto price swings, as long as people are still purchasing crypto.
I hope, for your sake, you're not putting too much faith in the "algorithmic" part of this because when it comes to a central bank maintaining a peg, it's basically exactly the same thing. You should look into what open market operations actually looks like in practice.

Actually the stablecoin is worse. In the case of this article the reserve funds are seemingly crowdfunded. Central banks can just print money if they have to. This of course leads Crypto Andys eschewing the printing of money with disdain but it's actually a feature not a bug.
TSLA isn’t totally a meme thing though. Say what you will, but Tesla has a better future than Game Stop.
The US also has terrible waiting periods for elective care as well. I've talked to many physicians in the US (wife is MD) and you're booking way out anyways. So...universal healthcare has wait times of 7 months instead of 5 months.

It's just weird how people argue for the US system as if it's superior but it really has the same problems as other countries with even more downsides. If we're supposed to be "good" at elective surgeries we're giving up a lot to be pretty mediocre.
Thank goodness I haven't heard a hipster sing the praises of carbon-zinc "heavy duty" batteries from Harbor Freight and dollar stores... yet.
the topic as defined by the post making the complaint was "an ethnicity issue / exploring identity issues". You generalize it to "identity" and your critique is true for the definition you make, but you may be missing the point the complaint was about: that the books don't just feature this topic, they resolve around it.

The post i commented on described the topic as "injustice" and argued that making the complaint is akin to asking to ignore injustice, and therefor morally wrong. I find that an eristic argument and engage it with logic, because i strongly dislike such arguments.

Please note that i have no strong opinion whether the complaint is objectively true, complete nonsense, or only the subjective understanding of the person making the complaint. I do not have such an opinion, because i have not read any one of the winning books and will not make any argument about their content or major themes based on one sentence summaries.
INTC is trading at a PE of 7.1! And a dividend yield of 3.3%
>If you don't have cash to spare thinking about investing isn't what you should focus on but instead doing basic financial wellness like having a savings account.

There are an incredible number of reasons why they might not be able to invest right now so perhaps it isn't the best thing to immediately goto implying they don't even have a savings account.
no it doesn't. i was there for Geocities, angelfire, tripod, myspace. once you know how to copy and paste
Urban agriculture doesn't have to be monoculture. It's better for the soil to have some diversity anyway. A healthy mix of plants requires more human labor to maintain than an industrial farm of the same area, but for people in cities getting contact time with plants is beneficial in itself.
This is directly akin to using the defence of "i didnt realise the burning coal was hot". Common sense would have got you 99.9% of the way to not hurting yourself but you reached into the fire and grabbed it anyway. Given these are fiscal monetary "experts" they should have and could have done better. That includes delegating decisions and actions to those better able.
It's not 2008 or even 2013. You can get crypto at a coin counting kiosk in any grocery store in middle America.

The psychology driving crypto for the last half decade or so is the same sort of psychology that drives penny stocks and scratch-offs. The only people who don't understand this yet are sitting in SV/NYC/Miami and are totally out of touch.

Stablecoins were sold as "the stability of a savings account with the returns of dogecoin".
No such thing exists anywhere. Almost every country on the planet provides some sort of public health care. And any country that doesn't, one could argue the private sector health care is distorted.

This is because it is impossible to provide private health care in an undistorted market. A patient can often cannot "shop around" for health care. It can never be a truly voluntary exchange when one party's health is on the line. There will always be an significant element of coercion and urgency for the party needing care. This is especially true of emergency and urgent care, but is true to varying degrees for most forms of health care.
For projects that need to have high security and reliability, I'm much more confident adding novice Rust developers to Rust projects than novice C++ developers to C++ projects.

Rust limits severity of the damage an inexperienced programmer can cause. It is hard for a noob to get past the compiler, but once they do, the code already has lots of correctness guarantees. “Bad” Rust code may clone() more than strictly necessary, or waste 10 lines of code for something that has a 1-liner in the standard library, but it won't corrupt memory (noobs will know to stay away from unsafe{}, and that can even be enforced). Rust prefers to be locally explicit, so it’s also easy to review.
There's various forms of the EMH. As a general heuristic does it really seem unreasonable to assume that a random HN commenter has worse pricing information than a wall st analyst?
Only 75%? So still 25% to go
I lived through the dotcom bust, the financial crisis and now this. Long term it isn’t going to be any worse than they were. In 2-3 years we will be recovering. I feel bad for people who can’t wait out a market cycle, but that’s what this is, somewhat exacerbated by the Fed’s actions leading up to this point.
> “With a modest amount of effort, emacs could be made to have appealing aesthetics and sane defaults…”

Sure, for some peoples use cases. Also “modest amount” isn’t really true for new users. The time it takes to look up potential configs, figure out how to make changes, play around and see if that’s what they want from their editor, and in general figure out what’s possible doesn’t really happen in a “modest amount” of time.

> “>Emacs is not so much an editor as it is a tool well-suited for writing custom editors.”

There is nothing wrong with this comment, it is a correct statement because emacs by your own admission is a flexible tool that can be modified to one’s liking. For a lot of people that means tailoring it around their workflows/uses before it’s actually useful to them.
No. Having lived in places that are now called “food deserts”, having relatives in places called food deserts, they are called that because healthy food — fresh veggies are NOT AVAIALABLE and you have to schlep to get alternatives.

The most egregious examples is the way that Native communities across the U.S., whose foodways are healthy and sustainable, who were responsible for the cultivation of corn, squash (i.e. the “healthy” organic foods that now available in the Whole Foods isles) have and continue to be persistently forced into areas that are food deserts by design [1]. It’s not that people don’t
know what food is important, the core of their cultural practices have been clear for
millennia on this point. The construction of a society that demands that some people be herded into pockets of deprivation is the problem.

1. https://www.davispoliticalreview.com/article/the-prevalence-...
What do you mean? Open-source, free-as-in-beer implementations exist for HEVC. They may or may not be patent-license-compliant (I don't know either way), but they exist, and I sincerely doubt it's even remotely possible for these decoders to be scrubbed from the internet.

I agree that I would prefer to use a patent-unencumbered codec, but I'm not willing to use AV1 until it has common hardware decoding support. My battery life and power consumption is much more important to me than a theoretical, unlikely, future inability to decode it.
You just, as you say, follow friendly instructions. It's as easy as reading a page of a manual.
Why did you post this then?
Drylands Agroecology Research Institute
Dude, once the Bitcoin bubble pops there are going to be zero revenues.