skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
David Graeber talks at length about this in his Debt book.

At various times in history "unit of account" and "means of settlement" have been two different things. We are used to having a single currency (INR/USD etc.,) perform both the roles; however that needn't be the case. Going back to the earliest times in Mesapatomia, the debt and payments were denominated in silver coins but the actual payment was done in kind (such as food grains, wood).

Roman currency continued to be a widely used unit of account in the Middle Ages despite there being no Roman Empire producing the currencies/coins. Because a wide swathe of population had gotten used to that unit of account they just continued; though the payment was settled using whatever they had with them.

Brazil used this phenomenon to their advantage to escape from a monetary hole[1]. They created a new currency purely as a unit of account i.e., they didn't print/issue them. Everything was denominated in this new currency so citizens got used to calculating everything in this stable new currency. And then they declared it as their official currency.

I am fascinated by history of money and it's interesting to see a phenomenon play out again and again in different contexts.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...
I'm a programmer at the Swedish Internet foundation which runs (or in industry terms: is the registry for) the .se and .nu (nuie) ccTLDs.

Basically we are a big old database. When someone registers a new domain, via a registrar, they send us that information (most commonly via a protocol called EPP). So we get "this is the domain, registered by this person, it has these hosts, it is registered for this long, with these DS posts, for example. Different registrys have different rules, for example the .se domain has a set of allowed characters that you are allowed to use in your domain name, and rules on how long into the future a domain can be registered for.

This data is then used to perform our most important job as a registry. Creating the zone file for our TLDs so that people could actually reach the domains.

That is from the technical side. There's also a big support side with different aspects. There are abuse issues that need to be taken care of, ICANN has a dispute mechanism that people are involved in.
Thanks for this! Could you please share any other tip if any?
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>The fly is very fast at detecting and responding to motion in its vicinity, but that property does not make the author look foolish, just slow.

Actually the author is using the wrong technique if he is trying to swat the fly.

Flies use their compound eyes and a collection of sensitive hairs on their bodies to detect threats and avoid being swatted. You can use this to your advantage.

When the fly lands on something you should approach slowly and steadily from the same direction with your palms open and ready to clap together. Move slowly as your hands get close to the fly so as to cause a minimal air disturbance. By moving slowly, the fly finds it difficult to parse the fact that your hands are getting closer and once you are within a foot or so (.3m) clap your hands together as fast as possible.

Your hands will be close enough that even with the fly's excellent acceleration and detection skills it will be difficult for the fly to escape being crushed. Make sure your fingers are cupped so that the fly is spit out between them as the air escapes during the clap.

It may help to consider that many times a fly will launch itself slightly backwards when it takes flight before zipping forward rapidly. Plan your clap so that the fly will be trapped even if they shift backwards slightly.

Wash your hands when you're done.

This method is successful for me more than 95% of the time when I allow the fly to land. If the fly is nervously zipping around just be patient. It will pause and then you can clap.
I believe you should have read the article. It discusses $30 million in lost sales due to the packaging redesign. It was not talking about the costs to do the redesign.
Does an IPO not count as an exit anymore?
West of House

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

There is a small mailbox here.
Agreed but I've seen it work much better for _running_ software.

FWIW, a common anti-pattern I've seen around here is to use the client's inexperience with "Agile" to justify having a PO from our side. A "product _owner_" that thus doesn't own anything and has no leverage whatsoever on anything on the client side. Scrum—and "Agile"—my ass.
I see. So what you are saying is that the career opportunities did not justify the opportunity cost. Thanks for sharing! As a prospective PhD student, this helps me gauge the worth better.
> I assume their infra is Europe based

Qwant is a French company, so yes: https://about.qwant.com/en/contact
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With a price collapse, the energy consumption would also collapse, no?

> require a planet-and-a-half's worth of energy to stay secure, which is also not happening

But what are the implications if it does?
Recently a friend showed me this, which I thought was pretty nifty: CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation)

"Back in the 1960's and early 70's Bell Labs made some very sophisticated educational kits available to high schools and colleges. Designed for classroom use, they included wonderful manuals written by some of Bell Labs best minds. One of these kits, introduced in 1968, was CARDIAC: A CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation."

https://www.mikesmakes.ca/1960s/cardiac
Is an unknown, extraordinarily ancient civilisation buried under eastern Turkey?
The piece suffered from not having nearly enough detail here. Why did they choose that exact moment? What led them to choose the new design no one liked?

I would imagine the fruit juice industry is under some pressure. When I was a kid their product was viewed as a staple breakfast item that was beneficial to your health. These days its reputation is more like soda, too sugary for regular consumption.

Were they really redesigning for vague brand marketing reasons or were they grasping at straws to revive declining sales?
I suspect that to some degree people in real life are filtering or constraining their behavior and speech. Facades of one type or another are presented to others. Being excluded from the “group” is something humans have long evolved mechanisms to avoid.

Online these limitations often fall away resulting in displays of ugliness (and occasionally vulnerability) that are the real person behind the facade, unconstrained with the need to form a relationship with some internet being or group.
Not software obviously but Formula 1 is much better as a fan under its new (media) owners.
> And people making transactions will not pay more fees than they need to, so the existence of miners able to mine profitably for lower fees will in turn bring down average fees.

Only to a point. Since a limited number of transactions can fit into a block, users competing to get their transactions mined in a timely manner will drive the fees up. That price point can be well above the cost of many forms of energy.

So as long as Bitcoin is still valued and there are enough people wanting to make transactions, there will still be miners burning useful energy.
This was absolutely my impression too. "One is Tropicana, the other is the slightly upscale store brand."
Thanks kindly for sharing. I will absolutely listen to and try just about anything.

That fixed wake up time concept seems to be the bedrock of sensible sleep programs. It makes massive common sense. Unfortunately it nearly ruined my life. I tried it for a couple of months and it ground my life to a raging headache halt, taking my sleep from two or three hours a night to 30 minutes or an hour if that.

Restricting screen time before bed doesn’t seem to matter for me, but what I did find to be very helpful was not to have any in the periods I wake up at night, which happen at least every hour.

Melatonin does nothing for me, whether it’s 1mg or 10mg.

Very touched that you took the time.
That website has a wonderful retro feel to it. Functional and clutter free.
Back when Facebook launched their original API, I built a few games and apps on the platform, earning a few thousand on ads (the mid 2000s were a wild time).

This got me hired as a "Social Media Expert" at a Fortune 100 company in the marketing department, before even graduating college - a position that didn't exist and I didn't apply for, they were just terrified about Facebook and what it meant. Eventually I shifted to their "innovation department" creating many internal social networks, back when that was a thing.
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You don't really need Atmos for 5 channels - you could probably pick up an old surround AVR sans Atmos for pretty cheap.
Exactly! My doctor made an analogy of taking meds with wearing glasses for sight correction: you don’t need to use it at all times, but if you do want to see properly then you do need them.

Out of curiosity: may I ask which medication are you using?

Most days I’m taking Concerta 54mg topping up with the short release (Ritalin) as needed. I never needed to try Adderall or Vyvanse as that combo worked so nicely for me. Some days I want to have finer control and just use the short release.

I cried throughout my first weeks on meds. Finally understanding how calm most people experience their brains was life changing. :)
On their forums they say they envision some other company handling Postgres too. Personally I would prefer they handle the databases, redis etc because that way the services you need can be provisioned right alongside your app servers otherwise it undermines the value of having edge servers near your users. Heroku could get away with 3rd parties being responsible for the database software because using AWS it was easy for other companies to be in the same region or zone.

https://community.fly.io/t/can-we-get-an-update-on-managed-d...
It's too general/abstract. Instead of a square color and circle color, just pick two colors and go with it.
Living in the PNW where predicting snowfall can be problematic to say the least, I love looking at the various windy.com models. One particular storm, that lead to about an inch of sticking snow this past winter had ranges from 2-20 inches predicted by the various models. The worst part is the 2 inch prediction came from the model that is generally considered the least reliable for our area.
I’m still trying to understand this quote so pardon me for being thick. Is he saying they raised the price as high as the market would allow or that they waited for a while to do that?
You are being downvoted but I think this a shame, because I think you are right. Change isn't always progressive, and I do believe, as a previous HN post discussed, in the utility of separate "document" webs (as our current web is designed) and "application" webs. (Which has been hacked on top of our current document model, and not without problems.)
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Check out:

https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/intro.html
Yeah ok but MIDI files can be extremely complex, with different note lengths, timing, chords, etc. etc. It would be impossible to "play" on a web interface, only with a keyboard. And then it would just be Flowkey? -- or the app you are making...

That said, it's true that music is not random; learning to read actual music can be a plus over reading an arbitrary sequence of notes (although if you can read random notes fast, you probably also can read non-random music). It could also make sense for music teachers to upload a piece so that their students all work on the exact same music for example.

In that case the app could "flatten" any piece of music into a simple succession of quarter notes. It would not be very different from what it is today, though -- except less random. So, why not.
Here's him talking about the design: https://youtu.be/WJ4yF4F74vc?t=29
Let’s Talk about Dbt
I was coming to post exactly that. I can usually grok more about the intended usage from screenshots than a long list of features. Especially OSS that follows the Unix philosophy and has a lot of interconnecting components.

(Not to be overly critical of great OSS provided to me free of charge, but it's an interesting divide between new vs old OSS.)
You are spot-on with the love-hate relationship!

Do you have any more details on the script you are running to handle recurring tasks? They definitely have some warts and issues but so far it hasn't stopped me from using them. Though I tend to nuke recurring tasks and create new ones rather than trying to modify existing ones to avoid issues.

It's interesting though. As many issues as there arguably are, taskwarrior is just so satisfying to use when it works. And for me the warts don't have enough of an impact to look for something else or to try and fix it.
I suppose if I was feeling extremely generous; if you wanted to describe what happened in the video to someone else, you would use said pronouns. "(He) gave (her) these cool looking glasses". I don't feel that generous though.
Except that Bitcoin miners have tried and failed to exercise any such power because it doesn’t exist. The most successful attack was creating a short-lived arbitrage opportunity between the massively pumped Bitcoin Cash and regular Bitcoin, which was able to slow down Bitcoin blocks as miners swapped chains until Bitcoin Cash backers either ran out of cash or dumped. All you had to do to not suffer from the attack was to just not do anything related to Bitcoin Cash. It was ultimately about extending the advantage of “ASIC Boost” miners by delaying a patch.

The opportunity for miners to collude is completely offset by the fact that if they try to leverage their equipment somehow to delay or otherwise impact the main chain, you can just choose to mine instead to make better profits. Thus far there hasn’t been a single effective counter-play for miners that isn’t just “mine more Bitcoins and thus further secure the network” that isn’t just day trading with extra steps.

Also who are these centralized miners anymore? Pools are centralized, but I’m a nobody who can mine profitably with very little capital involved. I can submit whatever block template I want. I haven’t been invited to any meetings.
Without some way to squash history, I don’t see how it’s possible to fix this. The bitcoin chain is currently 400gb. If we bumped it up to 10mb blocks we would be looking at several terabytes while still not being anywhere near big enough to handle real transactions.
Also “we need to talk about dbt”: https://pedram.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-dbt?s=r
It seems pretty obvious to me. There were issues getting the old FreeDOS image to run on some of the new hardware. Someone was tasked by their manager with fixing it. They said fuck it and just did this because it was easier/faster than trying to troubleshoot DOS on modern hardware. They showed it to their manager and their manager saw FreeDOS boot and was happy. Until now no one ever noticed because FreeDOS is just the "I'm going to pirate windows option".
Agreed.

I'm actually more inclined to see this as a work accessory over something for gaming.

Still , I'll wait for it to ship
Yes. I found it weird too. They put so much effort into making their app performant and then for the desktop app, wrapped it into an electron shell which is weird :)

I guess except the designing canvas, all the UI controls are built over DOM/Javascript and they needed a quick way to take them all into desktop. But I did expect more from Figma :)
When it was run by Al Copeland, Popeyes was actually very good. He tried to purchase another large fried chicken chain, went bankrupt, and was forced to give up Popeyes, but kept a number of dishes and ingredients. Copeland's restaurants still serve the original biscuits, which are incredible.

Apparently Popeyes reacquired most of the ingredients and dishes in 2014, but they unfortunately didn't bring back the original biscuits.
According to another commenter some laptops don't have Ubuntu as an option (likely due to some sort of driver issues).
me too, and idk how to cope up with this...
i see younger guys than me creating os, and i am here achieved nothing in life...
i feel so sad, so depressed, my mood flips so hard, sometimes i feel like just leaving everything and getting away.
i know it's not a competition and i don't want to win this, i just want to point at one thing and say, this is created by me. That's all i want and nothing else... But i have nothing in hand... And this happens every time...
and i get depressed and start crying...
Tangential: on a mobile, you can not zoom the images in. When you click on an image, it is elevated into a lightbox that is roughly the same size as the original and can not be rescaled either. I still have no idea what the before-after image is supposed to show.

A "uxdesign" website should do better.
> For example, you hold 100 bitcoins. Randall Munroe's wrench hacker holds you up for bitcoin because he knows you have some. You give him 0.1 from an address.

Keeping your crypto holdings secret would appear to be basic OpSec, just as one would do if you had to carry significant cash, precious metals, gemstones...

Hard to brag about your holdings on social media if you're not allowed to tell anyone, though.
TOML is a better version of the same idea.
I like Fly.io but I wish it offered something with Nix in the build process like Railway has recently introduced.

https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks
Of otherwise viable matches? 95%

More than 9 times out of 10 if I match and chat with someone otherwise interesting/interested, having children turns out to be a deal-breaker: they either have them or want them, more likely the former.

I've started putting "childfree" and "say hi if you are also childfree" in my bio, in my username, etc, but I still get matched by false positives regularly.

Plus I miss out on all the childfree people who have given up on dating sites for the same reasons I have.
I've been wanting a cheap, no-cloud raman spectrometer in my pocket for a while now.

Like something that can plug into something as universal as an audio jack on a phone, reflecting the laser back into its built in camera. I know there was some options out there that were cloud-based but I want one simply lets us interpret the samples and their readings ourselves with lab device quality output.

DIY stuff like this is ultra cool but it's like miniaturize-able for sure, and something you can run with open source software.

I know it's around the corner, I've read about it. It's like the next killer feature for new cell phones already. [1] Making it open source so some corporations who are doing cloudy things with your spectrometer data is definitely an international research security imperative.

[1] https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0046281
Where I live dew point gives a very strong indicator of our overnight low temperatures, especially in winter. Looking at dew point can tell me whether to expect frost or not and if black ice is likely to be an issue in the morning.

But yeah, treating those guidelines as anything other than a loose suggestion is meaningless.
Home refilling is a paradigm shift that most people don’t fully understand/appreciate yet. People have gone their entire lives filling up at a station, so it’s hard to believe that you really can go from going to a station every week to basically never doing that again. Plus with all the focus on the superchargers and dc fast charging in the marketing and media it really does go misunderstood.

It’s not just that you can fill up at home, it’s that realistically you have to. And as you mentioned some people just can’t. Something like 10% of Teslas get flipped because people buy them with no way to fill up at home and then don’t want to live with the alternative (and who can blame them).

300 miles of advertised range may mean that most people filling up at home almost never go to a supercharger, but if you don’t have that option, you’re probably going to be quickly thinking that’s not even half as much as you want.

Electric pickups are coming, and they are going to disappoint a lot of people, and won’t work for tons more. Currently some trucks (Ram 1500) have 1000 mile range. That’s not for no reason. They will still sell like hot cakes, and many businesses owners will trip over themselves in the rush to get several and love the economics, but it’s not going to be for everyone.
This is the right answer.

Major redesigns to marketing pieces (aka, advertisements) are fine. No one spends a long time staring at them anyway.

Major redesigns to tools will annoy the hell out of their users, unless things are done very carefully indeed (or the old tool was indisputably awful). You've got to look at how novices onboard to and use them, how intermediate users use them, how experts use them, and, if you can find one, how a master uses the tool. (The master will probably do something that surprises you. Make sure your redesign does not piss the master off, unless you like firefighting.) That's a lot of work!

Unfortunately, most things in life are tools by this definition, or at least close enough to them.
I commute in an ancient electric train called trolley. =)
TOML is not much better either. Large TOML documents suck to work with.
Utility of browsers and the web is delivering good content, and ability to link between unrelated content on unrelated sites. I'll nominate Wikipedia.
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That is a fantastically perceptive and compact analysis. Do you have a blog or anything? Tried to stalk your username I think maybe you’re using it might be a play on a Doctor Who actor or something.
I never found tables useful.

Now compare that to the evolution of the visual studio feature set over the same period.
One thing I didn't get about functional programming is planning the parameter order in advance for currying them later. Arrow functions may not look as neat as Haskells currying, but you can partially apply any parameter regardless of whether it's first or not, including separate properties of object parameters.
"In living memory, there was no record of an incident like this, of a tiger hunting a human being," he says.

Yet here is an article trying to get more clicks with that exact title
Same.

My money is on Supabase building for Fly as a target / default IaaS, and that's as much close to managed services we are going to get, given Fly's insistence that they're not really good at (or want to) building (and maintaining) managed services.
It is mentioned in the article though:

"But why did it fail? How does a $35 million rebranding project fail?"
When I worked in adtech (Brightroll) we hosted a segment mapping server on heroku. All it did was look at a url query for the target url, append a value from a cookie to it, and 302 to that url. The value in adtech is that I can tell you which segment a user is in by taking the data in my cookie and appending it to your url.

We launched it on Heroku using Nodejs and sent billions of requests a day to it. The thing ran on like a few dozen dynos, but it was responsible for like 20-30% of all of Heroku's bandwidth. Fantastic value for us. Immediate headache for Heroku.