skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Vercel and GitHub = I'm feeling lucky
I built a service to pick up a good first issue from repos randomly: https://github.com/datafuselabs/link

It powered by Vercel edge functions and Github Rest API.

Have a try here: https://link.databend.rs/i-m-feeling-lucky
I wonder how terrible the 4-code 4-solve 2-communicate people actually were at communicating. They were able to communicate their code and solutions to the interviewer after all. There's a great chance that the people who really are poor communicators were rated lower at least on the solve scale.

Looks like as usual, "more research is needed".
What do you find so horrible about Firefox? Genuinely curious.
Where do they say it's guaranteed?
So I'm not suggesting we don't lay more undersea cables, but has anyone done any studies on what damage laying these cables does to sealife/coral/habitats on the sea floor?

I love scuba diving and I've personally seen many coral reefs wrecked from boat anchors and fishing nets, do undersea cables do similar damage? (I'm guessing yes).
Twitter is not IRC. Switching from Freenode to Libra means changing a config and possibly sorting out some channels that switched faster than you expected.

Switching from Twitter to Mastodon means abandoning the (pretty terrible but familiar) software and an entire mode of interaction. Mastodon is much more about interacting with your peers than celebrities.

If anything this shows how superior IRC because of its flexibility.
What were you using for your RAID solution on AWS in 2009?
The spectrum of the matrix A is also closely related to the frequencies at which the ordinary differential equation xdot = Ax oscillates!
Name a monopoly in the US not put in place by the government. Historical or contemporary.
I share that story quite often, as an example of practical thinking to manage a manager.
The last few weeks (months, really) has highlighted an incredible lack of discernment in the VC-verse wrt the thing we call web3. Now. I have no experience doing what YC does and don’t claim to, but the jig here was so transparent that the smallest drop of “street smart” should’ve been enough to set off some alarms.

We’re approaching a point where being passed over for “culture fit” is a compliment. Hopefully the embarrassment is enough to expand the founder vetting checkboxes.
Hopefully they didn't park the investors' money in Anchor Protocol!
Ouch, I'd have been interested for around half the price!
I still use Firefox as my main browser, but lets not fool ourselves, it hardly matters with its current market share.
> I wasn’t even aware node-red could interface with HomeBridge.

It's actually kind of horrifying. There's a Node-RED module that uses the hap-node-client library, which is designed to talk to the hap-nodejs library that powers Homebridge. Which means Node-RED ends up talking the HomeKit Accessory Protocol to Homebridge as though it were HomeKit itself.
Ricky Gervais does a whole special taking the mick out of Christianity. Do you also think he shouldn't be allowed to do that?

Or is it only trans people you don't think people should be able to joke about?
painful to read about planescape torment, that game was damn formative (though as a working adult now... I really want to put that time and focus into disco elysium and havnt been able to yet...)
Sops-wrapper to help you with encrypting via sops
I created a small wrapper around sops to help me encrypting/decrypting secrets since I like single sourcing.
The same pattern is the FOUNDATION of the modern world!

The beauty of the current system is that because everyone has been told they are free, it is their own fault when they get trapped in a debt cycle.

Thus their own moral sense is the jailor.
Usually it's the risk premium. Which makes sense for these ponzi schemes.

Exorbitant returns - extremely high probability of ending up at the bottom of the pyramid.
> Smart contracts, DAOs, payments, self-sovereign identity, tokenization of real world assets, a few security use-cases, operating markets for prediction and asset-trade outside the control of external authorities (libertarian wet dream stuff), insurance and legal arbitration outside of the control of external authorities (more wet dreaming, but it’s happening), supply chain / provenance of assets…

None of this has proven any value in the real world.

Libertarian wet dreams are the other side of the coin of communists' wet dreams: utopian, not based on reality, not feasible in our current reality.

Legal arbitration is only possible under a legal system, that is under a government, that has a military and other enforcement powers. Some bits proving that a contract is valid won't change that...

As usual from the cryptospace, it's all techno-babble built on a house of cards that hasn't given anything to reality except an easier way to transfer funds without KYC, so basically it's a wet dream for criminal activities: scams, drug deals and so on.

Ring me up when all these wet dreams become a reality, they've been repeated ad nauseam for quite a few years already and nothing has really materialised.
I had a similar experiencing spending an hour wading through a ditch in the rain in (single player) Operation: Flashpoint.
YC has made some questionable bets in the last few years. Quantity over quality?
Need to learn it some time. I hope at some point it is ported to racket or some other lisp for proper maintenance.
They’re just one of several shiny fintech apps/websites running the same scam, a modern two-and-twenty on a ponzi — but with really nice UI.

Alice (alice.co / @alice_finance) is another prominent one that may have lost customer funds, which was also using the Anchor protocol. It’s unclear how much they lost, but it’s interesting that Do Kwon’s name is still an actual logo listed on their home page.

And Vertex Protocol (vertexprotocol.com / @vertex_protocol) recently raised $8.5m to launch a trading platform based on the Anchor protocol, but because their Phase 1 beta had just closed and the open launch was not planned until this summer, it looks like they may have just barely dodged the bullet?

What I’m really curious about are the new and (of course) unregulated “insurance” products meant to cover catastrophic crypto depegs, as happened to Terra/Luna. Unslashed (https://app.unslashed.finance/cover) is supposed to kick in after fourteen days, I believe. We’re not quite there yet, it’s barely a week so far. But I’m sure with this kind of implied loss reserves, it’ll be fine…

https://mobile.twitter.com/CurveFinance/status/1416392630754...
Become boring... to whom? Seriously. Becoming boring to others or the world is not a thing to worry about. Becoming boring to yourself is a different thing.

Just do what you enjoy doing, what makes you curious, gives you energy, drives you forward. Sometimes this will be a project of passion, sometimes this will just laid back daily routine.
> Does communication matter in technical interviews?

Who thinks up such a question? It’s like asking, “Is the sun hot” and then writing a blog post investigating the obvious.
A tonne of kagi shilling in this thread. Honestly its alright but not that great to warrant that many comments lol.

Sometimes I wonder how many of these comments are real, or fake. I have caught hacker news schillers many times before.
We can try this, I will piss in your reservoir and you drink it. Clearly there was some effect.
I wrote a tool that can process a number of MarkDown files with fragments of C code and put all those fragments in the right order to produce a file that can be compiled. It is grammar based and works with manipulating Abstract Syntax Trees, so I guess, it could be adapted for different programming languages. See: https://github.com/FransFaase/IParse#markdownc
I have a computer with an Intel 620 and openmw is unplayable while the original game is able to maintain 60 fps even with MGE XE
Some are worse than others mind you, at least for certain consumer facing things that most are discussing here.
Exactly that. While stripe would tick my needs, it's gonna cause some headaches on the long run. They can calculate the taxes meanwhile, but you have to still take care of e.g. MOSS yourself.
A sharded, caching, pooling, evented ORM for Erlang
> So - why on EARTH are you publishing there?

I also dislike medium and also wonder... Perhaps it's the most low-effort way to blog? Or perhaps medium "is where the eyeballs are"?
I often open windows even in winter to get fresh air circulating through the house. Not all day, but not just for a few minutes either. It gets stuffy otherwise. I am also motivated by these types of concerns:

https://www.lung.org/clean-air/at-home/ventilation-buildings...
Have you seen this site: https://whatsmychaincert.com/
"adding feature"

https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/

"The upcoming release of Litestream will let you live-replicate SQLite directly between databases, which means you can set up a write-leader database with distributed read replicas. Read replicas can catch writes and redirect them to the leader"
Try swipe typing, it really helps make small screens a lot more comfortable for me. I have one tiny Android phone with 2.5" display and it actually makes that one usable.
Much like airport taxes around the world are also different and can change at any time.

It is an interesting challenge though, to create software that is easy to maintain while capturing all these complexities.
Things are getting Rusty in the Linux kernel
Blog is already inaccessible at this moment.
Name a couple counter examples.

No evidence? It's all around you. The US for mostly free market. It's done spectacularly well. For communism, how about the USSR, N. Korea, etc. They're not hard to find. Do you think they did well? I read somewhere that N. Koreans were 4 inches shorter than their southern neighbors. Does that sound like hard over socialism is a success?

Why is it that every country and society that tried collective farms starved, and sometimes resorted to cannibalism?

The Pilgrims tried collective farming for their first year. They starved. Jamestown tried collective farms. They starved. The Israeli Kibbutzen are propped up by the government, as they cannot produce enough food. Kansas was called the "Breadbasket of the Soviet Union." And on and on.

I saw on the news the other day an interview with a fellow trying to get in the US via the southern border. He has nothing. He spent 4 months getting from Cuba to that border. What would motivate someone to do that? Triumphant socialism in Cuba?
I know this is controversial, but I think for 99.99% of companies multi-master is a fetish (been there, bought the tshirt). But if you need it, yes Litestream is going to be single master without automatic failover.
You just perfectly described what I’m currently working on. And it’s even more complex than you’ve explained (which I’m sure you’d well know haha)
Rocket launches definitely do.
And that's why they came up with Zello, which removes those legal protections and processes.
Definitely a tit for tat.

Take our bank accounts, we take yours.
New people come into existence all the time, though. The kids of today will be the adoptees of tomorrow. We will never run out of new blood.
You probably meant, a bit obliquely, to greet Mr. Blank (HN-ID sblank) and subtly thank him for compiling that document and be so kind as to immediately remember this community and submit the information.

https://steveblank.com/about/

We subscribe to the gratitude.
Yeah that's something I have been thinking about a lot lately. Mainly because I notice how big part of this job is asking people to clarify what they mean. Explaining ideas clearly is extremely difficult. The ability to write in a logical, concise manner is incredibly important and quite rare... which is frustrating.
“There is a non-zero risk that the peg does not recover to 100%.”
It's hard to figure out what it can do.
Everywhere is their branding.
As I understand they just send payment receipts, but no invoices.

I'd like to offer a free trial. While they have support for this, a user needs to enter his credit card right at sign up for trials to work.

So in the end I have to build a hybrid solution where my system gets tied to theirs. Still I don't have full control over all e-mails that are sent to the user. I'm not 100% happy, but better than not charging money.
React state management libraries in 2022
If they’re unlucky they lose $500k, which is nothing. If they’re lucky they get a Coinbase. Why not.
They are only smart in the context of what they are optimizing against. It’s like that for all area’s of an expertise or goal/ideal.
I'm not sure if your sarcasm is directed at me or someone else.

I do think it is unproductive to turn the conversation into a competition, or dismiss someone else's suffering. I think we can all agree it is both sad and disgusting when white or black people die in racially motivated violence.
That doesn't seem to be a huge issue. If someone actually does this for income, would they avoid disabling sip for 2x performance gain for example?
Curious, what are you working on?
It would be really cool to film an enzyme doing its work in slow motion...

I wonder if that would be possible?

You'd need some enzyme that can be crystallized and still work in a vacuum, and then a scanning electron microscope. While most enzymes need water, perhaps there are some that don't? The crystal keeps everything stationary. You'd scan a crystal of enzyme repeatedly while the reaction was going on.

Then you have the hard part... Figuring out a video of the enzyme reacting that is consistent with all the data sampled. Obviously what you're seeing is a large numbers of samples in time and space of the same thing happening repeatedly with unknown time offsets, and what you want is a video of the event happening just once. But that conversion ought to be possible... You might need to scan in a few different directions to help remove ambiguities...
The whole idea was to become a middleman to a ponzi scheme and charge a performance fee.

They described what they are doing in their documentation, but the core ethical problem here is that the only users that would use their service are those incapable of understanding how UST/Terra worked, because anyone capable of understanding would just deposit funds directly and get higher APR for the same risk! Extremely predatory.

UST fooled many ...not very bright people who genuinely didn't realize it's a ponzi scheme - but obviously smart and technically proficient founders of Stablegains' have no such excuse. Zero room for doubt - they fully knew it's certain to collapse eventually, banking on their legal terms to protect them from liability while privately profiting as long as it works.

Founders of Stablegains belong in prison and everything they own should be confiscated and divided among victims. Sadly they are probably safe - as knowing the inevitability of collapse they must have felt their legalese to be ironclad.
I haven't but will do. Thanks for the links!
>as someone who doesn't know how to code

You'll learn a lot by reading and it's probably easier to understand than you might think. If you don't do this other people take advantage of you. They do it a lot more than you would think.
Someone will have to mandate the price of something. That sounds an awful lot like a "regulation", doesn't it ?

Also, ironically, if you start regulating it (bannings plastics straws, disposable packaging, etc...) you'll get trashed on twitter _by_ the most ardent environmentalist, (and mocked by comedians) because it is "obviously not on the scale of the problem and just green washing that is not going to help anything vote for us instead."

(source : this is what the EU is doing, and everyone is making fun of them.)

Whereas if you develop a techno enzyme to eat the plastic and sell it expensively, you'll get your bonus.

_shrug_
Looks like the Danes are very smart!
100 year old buildings in European city centers have high ceilings and large windows. Nobody builds that high rooms any more, I would guess in order to fit more stories in the building. They do show their age sometimes with weird floorplans, lack of ventilation, and perhaps noticeable draft. But these will be very livable for a long, long time still.

Granted, some survivorship bias is surely in effect, and these were probably the fancy buildings of their time with better construction quality.
Don't we hear about one of these every five years or so?
have been caught by this one a number of times. Nowadays when I'm sending certs to vendors (that is, vendors who can't work LE), I include the fullchain cert by preference.
This seems solved if everyone just uses ACME
I believe it means total compensation.
Even if 100 by 100 is correct and it isn’t more that is an insane engineering project, and a lot of land. More than Lebanon, for example.
Zombie unicorns: Indian startups go from feast to famine
yes I think good remark. This will hurt their brand for sure. Quick money making as it seems
Interesting! Not sure I would describe it as a draughts variant, given that the pieces all move differently. It seems like it would be very hard to evaluate a board position but maybe you get used to all the colors.
Tbh they very well may have.

Didn’t think same kind of shit happen in the BTC crazy circa 2017?
I wonder how do they manage to maintain rather precise orientation of antennas for such a long time. Probably they don't have much power to steer the antennas.
Not crazy, we just aren’t so bothered by the heat. Restaurants in countries with AC are also insanely cold.

Actually here in Europe we think Americans are crazy for wanting to be so cold all the time lol
We're also still waiting for graphene to solve all of our problems.

Oh, and why are we still waiting on this: https://phys.org/news/2010-02-spray-on-liquid-glass-revoluti...
Great recommendation, indeed. There are quite a few misspellings, but more often than not, it feels like a running record of humanity. „petrosexual“ is certainly a Word I didn’t know I needed to know.
Hi, one of the blog authors here, Fuchs.

My initial draft did include a sentence about freenode in the first paragraph, but after a short internal discussion we decided to remove that, so I rewrote that part. Rather easy and quick, actually.

Now on the why: Libera was a clear cut. Reasons for that are different per person affected, but include e.g. a lot of pain to see what has become of something we put years in, wanting to have a positive vibe / outlook and rather create than mourn et cetera. We always communicated and worked in that way, we also asked people who basically lifestreamed the decline of freenode, which looked a mixture of a bad trash tv novella and a dumpster fire, to please move it out of our main channel. The blog post basically just continues in that spirit.

We are aware of our history, and people interested in it still can find the whole mess floating around on the web. Tech articles, discussions on social media, blog posts of various projects and users etc.
I think history is "in our favour" and there is no need to try and hide it. The blog post, however, is about our Birthday and focusses on Libera.Chat, and not on the past that freenode was.

Of course that makes the "from scratch" sound a bit wrong, but as some other user here already pointed out: it isn't that wrong. We built up everything from scratch, and that includes trust. We didn't know how many projects and communities would follow us and migrate over, especially not that early. We are of course very grateful that so many did, and for all the support we received during the very hard first weeks. But we could never be sure if it would go that well.

Hope that clears up that part a bit :)

Edit: removed a typo / half cut off sentence
I broke the rules and read the article before commenting.

The article concludes

> The bottom line: it is far less damaging to score 1 rating point lower on Communicate, and it is much more beneficial to score 1 rating point higher on Code and/or on Solve. Talk is indeed cheap, and indeed, coding and problem solving is what you need to show in a coding interview.

which is the opposite of what the two current HN responses predict.
I suspect in part due to some modesty, Craig drastically undersells just how much of an effort they put in to influencing this across the industry. Something Heroku was absolutely incredible at, that people don’t recognise enough, was that kind of bottoms up and almost organic shifting of the status quo. The time periods were discussing here are when SQLite was the default database for Rails apps in dev and MySQL was the recommendation for production. Postgres was definitely an esoteric choice that went against the preferences of the core target customer base. But they persisted. By making the investment necessary to make postgres with Rails amazing. By having dev advocates out there evangelising it. By hiring the most prominent people in the community to make it happen. It’s literally years of persistence and millions of dollars of investment to make stuff like that happen. And then they’d rinse and repeat with python, Scala, clojure, etc. etc.

That’s not to imply Heroku is the sole reason Postgres is where it is today. It’s the effort of tens of thousand of people in the community. But Heroku’s investment in playing their part to make that happen was very deliberate and intentional.
Which once again proves that it's worth using time-tested stablecoins. More than 50% of my portfolio is BUSD and USDC, in addition I get excellent passive income placing their in liquidity pools on dex wowswap
If you have a GPU, also check out Nvidia broadcast. It removes webcam background sure, but it can also do some seriously high quality noise cancellation, much like the krisp.ai service does from the article.

It can even run the same noise cancellation algo on incoming audio! So you can filter colleagues' noise for yourself if they don't want to bother
Between XML, JSON, YAML and TOML, I would rather my configuration files served in XML, with schema validation and graphical IDE tooling, thank you very much. :)
I just wish the liability could be extended to enablers that is funders... Sometimes I think companies should not really be limited liability...
L6 @ Google, personal AGI last year (not counting capital gains or spouse's income) was just over $900K. You forget the massive stock-price appreciation between 2020 and the end of 2021. If you were granted $400K/year in stock compensation in March 2020 it was worth over $1M/year in Dec 2021.
It'd be nice to elaborate what communication in this specific setting entails.

From my experience:

- being willing & able to "bring along" the interviewers, thinking out loud

- being easy to follow (clear phrasing, logically chained etc.)

- asking for help/input when needed

Without defining what exactly 'communication' means it's impossible to measure. Even then, it's highly subjective - that doesn't make it less important though.
A QR code is easy to copy? Im guessing this isn't.
Clojure – Equality
Florence Is the Magical Escape You’ve Been Waiting For
Bitrot appears in their 1998 or 1999 list. Very wrong. That term is much much older.
I was reading this and thought event based system for generating the billable quantities. I am sure billing by api call or data consumption must be done by an event driven system, if my customers are doing a billion requests a month, I probably do not want that data in my database. I would have also thought logging would be your friend in generating reports to reconcile your accounts. Some form of message cache to ensure it has not been processed twice would help.
> if you'd read the previous post carefully, you'd have seen they said that

I did read it carefully (and quoted the whole thing for context), but that final line made it seem that it was PG that was responsible for that particular instance of resilience.

Someone who isn't familiar with how ext3/4 handles deletes might, from the comment alone, assume that the same sort of thing would happen on other filesystems.