skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're already participating in such a project. Every government currency is inflationary, their value trends towards zero over time. This is by design. Capitalists want you to spend that money as soon as possible instead of amassing vast amounts of it. They punish currency holders with inflation. If you don't spend the money or lend it out so others can spend it, the money loses part of its value. They want people spending and consuming constantly in order for the world to keep turning.

"Change their behavior" is quite the understatement.
The Wikipedia page the post's author linked to has weather by month. I confirmed that SF had the coldest average temp in June and July. Mark Twain's apocryphal quote is backed by data.

I live in SF, and agree, it's quite rare when it is too hot during the day. It seems like the gp poster was referring to the SF Bay Area rather than SF. I work in the South Bay and while I hated the pre-pandemic commute, the warm spring/summer/fall weather (and Asian food) were the two redeeming factors. SF's winters were slightly milder than the mild South Bay winters.

As someone else pointed out, the South Bay of Los Angeles has better weather than pretty much anywhere else, at least in California (it is similar to the Mediterranean and Redondo Beach is known for its "Hollywood Riviera").

Supposedly Stanford was founded in Palo Alto after Leland Stanford Jr. hired a cartographer to look around the US to find the city with the best weather (maybe it was most sunny days). A bit too warm for my liking but it's pretty darn nice.
Differences Between a Graph Database and Relational Database (2021)
Usually I'm not bothered by how a font looks but this one was unpleasant to me as well and I'm not one to usually notice. It seems they're using a font face designed for titles in the body text.

"“The Bodoni typestyle is not an all-purpose workhorse. It is, rather a high-strung thoroughbred,” says Allan Haley, Monotype’s director of words and letters. He is absolutely correct! Most currently available Bodoni designs are intended for, and best used for display sizes. Their extreme thin strokes won’t reproduce well at smaller sizes, which can degrade their appearance and lessen readability. Using a Bodoni outside of that version’s “sweet spot” size range can have unintended results: If you’re using one that is intended for display, but setting it at small point sizes, the thins might not hold up, spacing will most likely appear too tight, and overall readability will begin to be compromised. " - https://creativepro.com/typetalk-good-looking-bodoni-at-any-...
Please don’t encourage using a single route and the hash; people should just ensure that suitable document is served from all routable URLs—whether it be a consistent bootstrap file, or (generally preferably) that you do server-side rendering. Using the fragment for routing is only something to do when you can’t do it the proper way, not a tool to reach for from the start.
This isn't true. it is the result of record tax collection, not savings or cost cutting.

California took in record taxes each year during the pandemic

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QTAXTOTALQTAXCAT3CANO
Yep, Buffalo and Bud share a similar ethos, with completely different approaches.

Bud uses modern FE frameworks and leans heavily into making code generation work well to give you type-safety and higher-level APIs.

Buffalo is farther along in the journey with database migrations, mailers, etc.

Unfortunately, I think Buffalo is no longer in active development. The main author left his own #buffalo Slack channel in gophers.slack.com.
> WebRTC largely prefers dropping packets to stay real-time

In my experience, this doesn't work as well as people say. I haven't played with WebRTC yet, but my understanding is it's based on RTP over an unreliable transport, which I am familiar with. Dropping packet by packet (no mechanism to either retransmit the dropped packet or skip sending the rest of the packets in the frame) isn't great. When you lose one packet, you lose a full frame but waste bandwidth sending the data anyway. Worse, it's usually a reference frame, so all the following frames are suspect until the next IDR frame. RTP over TCP (interleaved RTSP channels) can be better, by retransmitting lost packets belonging to a frame once you've decided to send that frame, and by skipping whole frames at once when things fall behind (observed within the application as insufficient buffer space). TCP has more rapid feedback, too. (ACKs are far more frequent than RTCP RRs.)

> while HLS buffers and preserves every frame by default rather than drop frames to stay real-time. One is designed for calls (real-time) and one is not (streaming). That’s why HLS seems over-complicated. It’s not designed around real-time signalling, instead it’s designed around making requests for frames/bytes effectively sequentially.

Sure, and the WebSocket protocol I mentioned also can preserve every frame, more simply.

The most justifiable complexity IMHO in HLS is multiple encodings (variants) of different quality so you can switch between them. But not everyone needs/wants that, or trusts the user agent to do a good job with the selection.

> MSE would be a way of capturing packets, but if the protocol doesn’t let you sequentially access bytes starting from a timestamp, you’re stuck when trying to resume a stream, no?

MSE lets you specify your own protocol. Mine [1] lets you seek to arbitrary timestamps. It has its own complexity (around clock uncertainty/drift due to cheap/unreliable hardware setups) but will be more complex if I have to deal with HLS's complexity also.

[1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/master/design...
The dollar has been amazingly stable over the last 50 years.

Outside of the last year, we haven’t broken the feds 2% inflation target for the majority of the last decade. Further, we haven’t experienced high inflation for the vast majority of of time that we’ve been off of the gold standard. Yet, the crypto maximalists run around like the US is Zimbabwe.
And there were a ton of voices saying the exact opposite. That we must do everything we can to avoid another 2008.

There will always be the voices on both sides, the problem is that it's not always easy to know who to listen to at the time.

> The feel good policy of spending excessively and avoiding inflation fighting has proven to fail many times in history

There are many examples of the opposite.

The question isn't whether we spend or not, it's how much. That's the difficult part to get, especially in a democracy (doubly so in the US political system where you try to get as much done in the half a year that you can actually govern).
Those are interesting analogies, particularly for the RNA. Thanks for sharing them.
This isn't true. it is the result of record tax collection, not savings or cost cutting.
California token record taxes each year during the pandemic

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QTAXTOTALQTAXCAT3CANO
"Computers", not "computer systems", according to https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10226092-we-build-our-compu...
> The difficulty that fiat currency faces is inflation

Not just inflation. How many fiat currencies from 100 years ago still exist today? And for the one that still exist, how much value have they lost? I'll let you ponder on that.
Can't help but think this will create more buyers without more supply which will only drive up prices higher.
You definitely needed to compromise on range power and comfort. The 60kWh version was more expensive than an BMW M4, S5, or A6, all in more powerful, comfortable, etc...

You definitely had to compromise to own it, on almost everything aspect. Despite everything else, people were buying it because it was electric.
Luna is a proof of stake system. The energy usage is negligible.

While the rest of your comment may have some truth in it the different types of stake mechanism should really be understood on HN.
> just buy inflation indexed bonds.

You do know that the official inflation numbers are much lower than actual inflation?
Are you trying to make bad analogies?
The wiki for this flight[1] is unfortunately pretty thin.

I'd really like to know the story behind how they got a V2 rocket out to White Sands and actually conducted this flight. It has to be a fascinating story - one I hadn't even heard of until now. I assume this was broadly part of Operation Paperclip, and either fully assembled rockets or their components were moved out of Germany and to the United States at some point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_No._13

Edit: I take it back, the wiki does link the final project report[2] from 1952 that goes into detail about how this was accomplished. It's worth reading.

[2] https://archive.org/details/finalreportproje00whit/page/2/mo...
Explorer II
HN seems to have unanimously thrown all nuance to the wind whenever crypto comes up
I didnt read the article, but I think that adding the question mark to the title to mitigate tbe claim is a great idea!
Not really, since USD in the international currency of exchange, and every country needs to have reserves in dollars in order to purchase things like petrol and gas - so in effect every other currency tries to align to the dollar, for better or worse.
> Every post should have a set of tags: describing the subject. In the information overload age filtering is becoming essential.

You state that as a fact, but it is an opinion. I think using a filter would prevent users from seeing posts and comments that they would find interesting. In a sense, it would create a bubble for each user.

Also, HN isn’t that large that a quick visual scan of the home page doesn’t work.

> If readers don't want to use tags/filters they don't have to.

And if writers don’t want to use tags, or can’t even remotely agree on which ones should exist?

For example, in your example list, Code and Software would have significant overlap, AI about always would be software, Politics should be very rare according to the HN guidelines, people would disagree about the definition of Startup.
150km of real world practical range is more than adequate. It's only 50% less than what the model S was when it came out, which is more than enough for the majority of people in the world.
You’re right that you can support plants in inert mediums if there’s a nutrient supplied in the water. I think the person you responded to was suggesting that the soil without added nutrients wouldn’t do anything, which is probably correct.

Since you’re right about aeroponics, I wonder what the practicality of using moon dust as a medium is. Perhaps it contains some amount of minerals that could be extracted by plants, thereby reducing how much of it we need to ship to the moon? I’m not even sure that’s possible without established microbial and mycelial cultures – do plants extract minerals from dirt on their own?

The experiment results aren’t overtly meaningful here in any case. I thought NASA was so interested in aeroponics partially because of how useless the moon is as a medium for agriculture.
The game was entirely text mode and had a smart hack to double vertical space by using the top half block and bottom half block ascii characters as well as the block.

This hack got me to look at things differently and explore more possibilities each time I encountered a new problem as a child.
This sounds like a great suggestion. It sure would make It more easier to find the content.
I find the way the article uses the "lunar soil" misleading. On earth, soil is a complex biological output of an ecosystem of microbes, fungi, worms, etc, obviously none of which exist on the moon. In the paper, the authors are (mostly) careful to describe the lunar material as regolith, e.g. "Soils derived from lunar regolith". Failing to make that distinction implies that the raw material on the moon is much more useful on its own than it really is.
So you consider Kansas a mountain then? Interesting...
Microsoft Suggests Uninstalling Windows 11 Update That Crashes Apps
It’s certainly possible but much less likely than the attack on Luna. Attacking Luna gives the attacker enormous amounts of profit shorting due to the catastrophic failure inherent in Luna/UST design. Attacking USDT requires much larger capital with much fewer profits and may even backfire.
The T-cells should up their ante then.
> The difficulty with cryptocurrency is that there is nothing of worth backing it

There is not much backing any other currency either, apart from the fact that:

- the government forces their currency on you

- the banks forces you to save that currency with them

- people "trust" the fact that the currency will be worth something in the future

But in fact what backs up every fiat currency is pure air. Let's say the dollar stops being the international currency, good luck explaining everyone what it's "worth" when nobody else wants it.
This was the first update in a long time that broke things, but after I installed it many programs wouldn't run, from Viscosity, to Event Viewer, to Visual Studio. I backed out this update and everything's fine again. Weird!
The trouble with value assessment is good enough to dismiss LVT altogether.

I don't want to be forced to liquidate my house to cover LVT bill only because the land value shot up thanks to being a part of future promise from a developer project that doesn't have to fall through.
Instagram seems ok.
This is a really great idea, and something I may find myself often needing. However, having to create an account, or when not wanting to take that route, having to sign up for a free trial makes this a no-go for me.
How the world’s forests have transformed over the past two decades
> You need only one pair to run half duplex 10/100bt (contrary to what's stated above)

How do you wire your one pair for half duplex so it works with commercially available Ethernet equipment? I'll grant you that only one pair will be active at a time, and that 10base2 works with two wires, but you need two pair for 10baseT-HD. I'm very happy to be wrong, please point me in the right direction.

There's also 10Base-T1S, but it's a new specification (2020), and seems limited to automotive and industrial applications, not generally available.
I do think, though, that woojoo666’s comment and my response are worth bearing in mind. In this specific situation, I think <Link> is not warranted and mildly better avoided; but in a similar situation where global behaviour wasn’t already forced, I would say to keep the separate component, rather than breaking behavioural encapsulation.
There are way more scientific problems than scientists, funding for science is limited and competitive, NASA requires a review process before handing out soil samples...I could go on.
Proximity to the US border. Medicare, particularly. I am no expert even though I have spent a lot of time on it. It seems a double cancer survivor with partner much the same is going to have a hard time getting insured any other way.
Thanks for this reminder, I had peeked at wezterm a month or so ago and it sounded slick, but I was pretty happy with my iTerm+tmux setup. Just got a chance to play with wezterm a bit, and I think it's going to be my new term, because:

- The ssh mux seems to work at least as well as mosh+tmux.
- It has decent keyboard Copy/QuickSelect/Search (I liked tmuxes, but didn't get that at my native terminal).
- Runs on MacOS and Linux, my work and home environments.
>I say "the price people were willing to pay" instead of "value"

That's what value is, though.
If you so desperately need to trade tether for USD as a retail consumer then you can do it on Kraken.[1]

A dozen other websites will let you trade it for other types of crypto, which is the entire reason for its existence.

I find it amusing why people get so hung up on this. They aren't a retailer where you can pointlessly spend your USD to buy USDT and vice versa, the people who first offered a similar thing spent years in jail.[2]

Not going to jail is a strong motivator to let others deal with consumers. They are a b2b service for exchanges to provide an dollar equivalent.

[1] https://trade.kraken.com/charts/KRAKEN:USDT-USD

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve
Fixed or marked them as dead. Google published a lot of this under partnership with O'Reilly and it looks like Google is no longer publishing the PDF versions of their case studies, instead paywalling them behind O'Reilly.
I find this compelling, but the lines feel blurry to me. For example, take Hacker News. When I read hacker news, it's both static and simple. But, if I want to make a comment, suddenly I need authentication and a text box. So, does all of Hacker News have to be in an application web to support comments? Do I have to use two different applications to read or submit comments?

Next level of complexity might be form entry. Say I want to buy tickets for a conference, and need to submit my credit card information, phone number, address, etc. We already have authorization from HN, but are the credit card and phone number boxes just plain text boxes? No validation or interactive feedback until I POST? When I enter my address, do I get a map of where that is so that I don't confuse N xx-th St NYC with xx-th St NYC, one of which is in Brooklyn and one of which is in Manhattan?

On the flip side in the application web, when I'm doing my banking. If you go all the way to pixels, how does my accessibility reader handle it?
Was it so bad? My experience with it was resoundingly positive, and saw lots of productivity gains with a great developer experience for teams that could build apps with strong guard rails in place.

Now everyone and the kitchen sink „needs“ their own kubernetes cluster and operations teams struggle to build complex landing zones for the underlying cloud infrastructure so teams don’t shoot their own foot off all too easily…
but UST burning for luna is capped at $100m/day
Sure, in modern times that's what it means, but more generally it means it's money because enough people believe it is.
Sharing the good Elon Musk has done
A lock-free, concurrent, generic queue in 32 bits
If you take the view that "land" is where all the matter on earth comes from, it kinda makes sense. It's the strictest interpretation of materialism I've ever heard, though; there would be nothing of value without input of the sun's energy.
This sort of "wouldnt it be great to have some other thing, so we can murder the rest of the web platform" is so grotesque to me, just repugnant & vile & cruel.

Flash is a comedically shit technology. There's a couple animation capabilities it had that were nice & simple & people adore it endlessly for that. But Flash hated users, gave them nothing, no power (alike a native app) & was a big proprietary anti-hypermedia ball of jank, and it had the most trashfire craptastic lack of accessibility one could ever imagine.

This desire to keep hypermedia down, to create hard walls between different purposes of apps... it feels poisonous & misguided. There is too much of the web today thay does abuse client side code too much. But frankly it rarely affects most people, there's still viable techniques for manipulating it (except for Flutter's CanvasKit which is an abomination more cursed than Flash), and honestly, we're still getting better at webdev, still learning, still emerging better libraries & best practices, & generally the urge to do better is here & slowly happening.

There's some really dark takes that we have to save the web from apps. That we should bring back Flash is one of the most unforutnate least justified most tragic hot takes I've heard though.
Ask HN: People who suffer(ed) more than you?
A memory: """One day in late November in a city in Europe that measures temperature in degree Celsius: I was studying. I felt numb. So numb. That day, I already studied for ages. Longer than any person could possible bare. It must have been around 4 or maybe even 6 hours. The library felt like an endless hall where nothing is allowed to move or make a sound louder than taking a sip from a bottle filled with plain water - no sugar. I needed a break. The suffering was too much. I needed fresh air. So, I decided to procrastinate home.

On my way home - on my bike - my 20 feet long hair moved hastily in the wind as I tried to free myself of my mental suffering. And then I saw them: construction workers shoveling earth in the freezing cold. My heart stopped. Not because they didn't seem quite happy. They seemed neutral. But it was my mental image of what it must be like. For me. To be in their skin. To be shoveling earth right now. In the cold. Probably already longer than 6h that day. And probably also tomorrow.

My mind shifted. Immediately. I was motivated to study. Right there. Right then. I wanted to make sure that I would never be in their skin. To suffer as I imagined they must suffer. I was sure, studying would help. And, boy, did I study that day. That week. That month. Until I forgot. And then I remembered again."""

I am living a privileged life. However, every now and then I am suffering. And it feels like the end of the world because my mind compares my current situation to a dream world. It feels odd to me - how easily my mind shifts. Just the other day I was suffering. Then I watched a movie. A fiction story. But my suffering slowly faded away. It's odd. But it worked.

I am wondering: do you have observations of people who suffer(ed) more than you?
Shoeshine boys giving out stocks tips are the ruin of all great bull runs.
Or extremely risky!
the usual way of generating power on a bike is a front wheel generator hub. consider that a fairly fit cyclist can out 150 to 200 watts continuously. you might not notice 5W missing but you will certainly notice 20W. the 40W rating of this turbine is fully 1/5th of a fit cyclist's continuous power rating.
Panspermia and abiogenesis are different but more likely explanations than any religious explanation for the origins of life. That said, my comment is merely a reply to one thing: reasonably likely science vs gossip from illiterate, worship-prone travelers as the explanation for life. My personal opinion is that the only reasonable answer to the question of ‘where did life come from’ is ‘we have no fucking clue but science is a better explanation than supernatural genies because science provides a plausible explanation for almost everything’

Edit, to add: and, more importantly, we, as a human race, will glean so much more from exploring scientific explanations vs religious explanations that we should hurry up and move on from the latter before it stultifies us yet again like in dark ages and witch-burning era before we regress even farther than we have.
Yes , but the fact that we built societies on those things means there is great incentive for keeping it going (as even critics of capitalism eepeatedly keep noting).

The problem with cryprocurrencies is, that the one thing they are really not good at is being a practical, efficient replacement for fiat currency, which is why building societies on them is hard. You could as well speculate on the unique shape of certain types of sheashells and develope whole subsystems of people analyzing their shape, building seashell storage sacks and fake seashell prevention agency and it would be still be more efficient than crypto.