skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I will offer you an internet hug. I do think we are all entitled to more than suffering and toil, and I think you are too.

Second, I'll invite you to go back and read that quote a few more times. Sit with it. There is more there. I am half-heartedly fanatic about it.

Third, I think you are overestimating this great society. Might it be creating this suffering instead of easing it? Is joy rare, only produced by capitalism, and built on the sufferings of others or free and abundant? Why are we all working so hard? Is it for ourselves and our neighbors, or do you hear the same giant sucking sound as I do while the profit of our collective labor goes to benefit a few barons and the negative externalities rain from the sky?
POST URL: https://www.whitesmith.co/blog/twilio-chat-to-pubnub-migrati...

Twilio is going to sunset the Programmable Chat API on July 25 2022, replacing it with Twilio Conversations. However, not every feature is available, namelly public channels no longer exist which makes building a slack-style app not possible without much overhead.

We decided to migrate to PubNub and this is how we did it.
Anyone else had to migrate off of Twilio Chat? How did you do it?
As well as cabinets, drawing rooms, parlours (possibly multiple), solars, sunrooms, studies, recreation rooms (billiard rooms), …
It's like DND 5th edition. People who played 3.5 absolutely loved it, but it's undeniable that 5e is just a more streamlined system.

Many people would argue that the complexity of 3.5e isn't really worth going back to because a 5e game just flows better
right, crypto nerds are swinging for multiple x, if not 100x or 1000x
That's not the same, Cheddar is a process not (just) a place and Cheddar isn't protected as a origin.

Most British Cheddar isn't from Cheddar either.

And there's plenty of really good mature Canadian Cheddar for example.
Here's picture of p-Chip. https://p-chip.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/pChip-tracking...
I do not want these in my diet though.
> having the entire code base "mounted" on my dev machine

My impression is that this is a result of a policy that google3 never touches a developer machine, which of course means you can't disconnect and work from a log cabin in the woods. Really sounds like bending yourself around an antipattern to be honest.
The official cli windows binaries are here: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/

Afaik, they don't need any dependencies.
>Governments are not black boxes. The operation of governments is legislated.

xD
But I don't believe there's a fridge cartel. However, few customers spend more money to have a product with higher quality components that'd increase durability but not features. Using more expensive cables, valves, etc isn't really worth it for manufacturers unless customers are willing to pay extra.

But one of the major reasons is probably that products have become much more complex. A 30 year old fridge had few components that could break. Modern fridges are much more complex (because extra features sell well), thus more stuff that can break.
I love HN. Y'all are fantastic.
> this is what the EU is doing, and everyone is making fun of them

Is everyone making fun of us, or is it just the americans? The ban on free plastic bags in stores had widespread support and worked out quite well. The only not strictly positive thing I've heard about the proposed plastic tax is that we need to use that money to actually do something like fund cleaning of the environment or developing sustainable materials, which is a fair and obvious point and as far as I know, that is the plan.
> Not sure where to go from here as I don't really have the interest or resources to build a new/better/more efficient homelab nor do I have the time

Disclaimer: this is my commercial service...

A middle way is to use what is essentially a hosted service for streaming your own collection. I run https://asti.ga/ . Let me know if it seems interesting or you have any questions!
> They allocate a lot of memory and are very slow.

Slow and takes memory to compress, uncompress, or both?
That's actually like what was done on the project in question. If you use a transaction it was set to always use the primary that way you can read and write all you want in your queries.

For this ACK that you talk about. It's AWS aurora mysql specifically here do you know if that's a setting you can setup?
I'm gobsmacked at the amount of money people have entrusted to experimental beta software whose behavior at scale is unknown. It's fascinating to watch these systems spin out of control in a new kind of flash crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_crash
Dunno... In my country, you put your garbage in special bags on your front door once a week. They get collected. We have to sort our garbages: plastics and metals (mostly use to wrap food) in one bag, paper in another one, biological stuff (plants, unused parts of vegetables, etc) in another one and the rest in the yellow bag. Nice and cool (although I'm not sure how useful it is in the end).

Now the funny thing is that you get to see other families' trash bags once a week on their front door and there are big differences. My family has a tiny yellow bag every week and a blue one every other week whereas many others (with comparable family sizes) have 2 yellows at least and 1 blue every single week.

My guess is that they eat a lot of food coming from the supermarket: lots of wrapping, lots of cans, etc. It's an informed guess because the blue bags are transparent :-)
Can you still call it Parmigiano Reggiano, though, if it is adulterated with these chips?
> you're uninterested in the content and so the discussion is boring?

I would say that perhaps, at least from what I've seen, it's often not really a discussion at all, but more like a question answering forum. I suppose what I like about HN/reddit style forums more, is that there is a "post", with a clear topic or article, and then people actually have a full, long discussion about it. Sometimes of varying quality, but it's at least full of threads where people react, people react to those reactions, etc. Whereas what I've seen on IRC is mostly just "how do I do x", and then some random short-lived arguments about how to do X better, or why are you doing X, etc. It doesn't seem to be a discussion but more like a problem solving brainstorm with a bunch of people who aren't stakeholders in whatever the original poster is talking about.

So, I'm not sure, but maybe the way the discussion in a link aggregator is specifically oriented around a "post" and clear topic is what makes it more engaging for me, rather than just a nebulous promise that "this channel is to discuss X.." followed by people just sitting there with not much to say about X.

But, maybe my take is completely wrong, and that's why I asked the question, maybe I've missed the very interesting and dynamic back-and-forth discussions and funny moments that attract and keep people engaged in a chat room. Maybe it's just a matter of being there long enough.
> People can be surprisingly active and 'clear' when completely drunk.

Yes. But how it works?
This actually makes me wonder if people here generally pay attention, who posted what? Does that influence actual upvote status?

I never look at the person name when replying or voting, only the content. For example, I remembered this tptacek not because I remembered his posts, but because they get frequently mentioned in other people posts.
josu didn’t say it wasn’t fraudulent, just that it wasn’t a Ponzi scheme, which is a particular type of fraud. (I agree)
I have a soft spot for the Yorkshire pronunciation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzymb0YJp7E&t=160s
Do many companies actually need databases geolocated near users?

I'm working on big and small projects/companies and that has never been any concern of ours.

I always imagined it to be something only the very very big players care about. And as a big player I would usually bet on a big partner like AWS, GCP, Azure. Or am I missing something?
Hey,
I feel your pain. The "hope-for-the-best process" definitely is something happening in many companies...
Yet, it's not a fatality anymore. I work with Upflow (YC 20) and it is exactly what we offer to our clients : 1. Making sure they have clear visibility on their AR 2. designing systematized workflows for their customers (as many as needed) 3. Customer payment portals to help their customers pay on time, with no friction.
That's here at www.upflow.io
Kimai2 – Kimai v2 is a web-based multiuser time-tracking application
Some channels (right now I can specifically think of SourceHut's) refer to their off-topic channels as the watercooler, and I think that's an apt description. If the main channel is something you're interested in then you'll enjoy the off-topic too.
Fly isn't even that great, it's just everything else is much worse. I use it and I'm not surprised other people do as well.

There's also a lot of momentum for the Elixir/Phoenix right now, and they're pretty tightly integrated with that community.
The SEC will pay you money if you report fraud, the problem is that it's not clear how illegal these schemes are, and for the ones that are illegal, whether or not the SEC will be able to build, and win a case.

Bitfinex, for example is being prosecuted. The SEC have cases against a few of the mid-level people, but the founder is hiding out somewhere in Asia, and will never see the inside of a US courtroom.

Also, it's very easy to con someone, but it's almost impossible to convince someone who has been conned that they've been cheated. If you do your due diligence, and disclose your findings, the marks will ignore you, the con artists will smear you in the press, start lawsuits against you, and everyone uninvolved will shrug their shoulders and 'both sides' your feud.
Not only that, having one location for a world-wide user base is usually enough. You can optimize much more through rendering speed, blocking requests etc than by being closer to your user.

And even if your page becomes really popular, 3 locations (Europe, US, East Asia) are enough to be <200ms to any user in the world. And it keeps your setup and cost much lower.
One of the biggest selling points of IRC is that large numbers of people are not on it, and will never be on it.
This x 100. In the normal office environment audio cues are pretty much the main thing you can't bring home. Just hearing small conversations going on around you and being able to passively process them and jump in and out as necessary is a game changer for collaboration.

I have tried to build an "audio office" product based on low-latency spatial audio over the web but it's way too far outside my expertise. Glad to see that someone else is on it!
158p of free design system by a former Apple / Twitter / Oracle Senior Engineer
Anything that has DeFi yield farming on it with X% of returns per year is a textbook scam. It is neither 'stable' nor did anyone gain anything other than a loss.

It is another way for retail to hodl their bags for this lie called 'passive income' all into a loss while the VCs dump and exit scam with the founders.
“I really wish people would push to decrease the production and use of plastics in the first place, seems more sustainable than trying to engineer solutions at the tail end of the issue”

Absolutely this.

Watching the video in the article above was a bit worrying when it gets to the end. It’s really not clear to me if the researchers have created a plastic removing enzyme or inadvertently created a tool to increase micro-plastic pollution a trillion fold.

Hoping someone can come along to tell me how stupid what I just said above is, because it’s really not my field and I’ve no idea.
> Week 1: 119 per hour

Huh are people really getting such numbers? (Let alone 20,000 emails per hour)

I’ve got a cabinet in a data center and an IP block, but I’ve been using gsuite for years because I assumed that >1 email/hour would result in >1% of my sent mail getting incorrectly flagged as spam. Is that not the case?
"People in Russia rely on our services to access quality information and we'll continue to keep free services such as Search, YouTube, Gmail, Maps, Android and Play available."

Maybe the assumption was that without revenue they would go away.
RTFM

"The RAID56 feature provides striping and parity over several devices, same as the traditional RAID5/6. There are some implementation and design deficiencies that make it unreliable for some corner cases and the feature should not be used in production, only for evaluation or testing. The power failure safety for metadata with RAID56 is not 100%."

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid5...

RAID56 Stability: Unstable (do not use for other then testing purposes, known severe problems, missing implementation of some core parts)

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status
> As someone who went heavy into crypto/web3, it does pain me to admit that there really are no use cases besides making money. Which isn’t a bad use case by itself, but after using practically hundreds of protocols and projects, there’s not a single one I’d use if there was no prospect of making money off of it. My dApp usage has cooled off almost completely. And all data shows that this is true for most others as well

I appreciate the candor -- I still hold out hope, thinking maybe PoS (with equally bought-in parties) could work, but at that point you might as well have regular old paper and pencil coordination/contracts...

The tech is novel, but the applications just don't seem to be falling into place at all... I even consider the ability for it to function as cool points (not NFTs but just a way to make and check exclusive tokens) is OK because it gives community builders a way to pull forward revenue. If I think of it like a self-hosted app for managing exclusive tokens then I can kind of see a use -- if before people didn't have an on-ramp to enforcing their own manufactured exclusivity then maybe it has some positive effects...

Unfortunately right now it looks like the ecosystem is just a backdoor to unregulated securities. Some of the automated exchange stuff (uniswap and co) seemed cool too though I haven't looked too deeply at them.
Well, it's right there: "the authorities seizure of Google Russia’s bank account".

Due to legal censorship struggles of Russia with Google, they seized the account, so they cannot pay their employees and offices anymore. They have to file for bankruptcy, and maybe open another local company to move their employees to. Or get them out of this hell.
We actually have a video about very similar topics, would love to hear your thoughts about it (I feel comfortable sharing it since everything we're doing is actively anti-commercial and not about us at all, so it's not so much self promotion as looking for feedback): https://studio.youtube.com/video/Z44MoKURvXw/edit?c=UCs1NsN7...

If you also prefer text, I can link a Google doc.
But not for ProtonCalendar, and definitely not on Android.

Proton doesn't interact at all with the rest of the ecosystem. I'm not a Proton customer myself, I just hear it from our many customers that are frustrated by their closeness.
Why wouldn't it work? Alkohol doesn't put you into a coma or sleep. Studies suggest that alcohol actively dangers your long and short term memory. Doing to much at once and loosing short term memory is just a obvious proof for that.

According to this study* alcohol can interfer the ability to form memories

* https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-2/186-196.htm
From TFA:

"The innovation combines food-safe Casein labels with the p-Chip micro transponder — a blockchain crypto-anchor that creates a digital 'twin' for physical items. This scannable new food tag is smaller than a grain of salt and highly durable, delivering next-generation visibility and traceability."

I, for one, had never heard the term "blockchain crypto-anchor" before.
Wow, you can't really please everybody.. People are complaining about it being too expensive and now too cheap. What shall it be?
So basically you want movies to be treated as high-dynamic range content while most applications are treated as having a lower dynamic range so #FFFFF will not be the max brightness of your monitor. I think this is the direction we are moving in with HDR monitors and may already be how some operating systems work (except maybe the part of treating non-HDR movies as having a higher dynamic range than standard applications).
>* They're scammers.*

Given all the not-false-but-absolutely-misleading advertising I see/hear for VPN providers¹, I suspect they are all scammers or as near to as makes no odds.

[1] including in sponsored segments in the output of technical influenzas who don't help their reputation in my view by parroting the words themselves instead of letting the sponsor do it, or by being more choosy about exactly what they are willing to parrot
I couldn't find a source, but I once heard that your brain works normally in that state (as much as it can being drunk), it just doesn't form long-term memories. So during the night everything is as always and you remember what you did ten minutes ago, the events just never cross the "barrier" to be stored longer term.

This explanation makes a lot of sense to me and would explain exactly this behavior. However, I'm not an expert on that topic so no idea if that's correct.
If a 20% better ponzi is better than a 15% one, again, I ask, why not a 1,500% one? There's new shitcoins born every day, promising these kinds of returns.
Ahhh the joy of the borrow checker :

Me: Let's code this little vector computations

BorrowChecker: "Not like that"

Me: "What do you mean I have borrowed a mutable ? Let's try something else purely out of random"

BC: "No"

Me: "Let's rename things to cheat"

BC: "No"

Me: "Ah yeah, it's because I try to use two indices in the same vector"

BC: "No"

Me: "G*mn at random, let's shuffle things"

BC: "No"

ME: Ok, let's do it in python

(but believe me, once, you understand it and it becomes a really good friend, it just takes months :-) )
There are two reason why the compiler would need to check: 1. Because it makes for a better developer experience, if you get early feedback about your code being wrong. And 2. because type-checking a generic function requires you to check that an operation is allowed for all types in a type set. If you write func F[T C](a, b T) T { return a + b }, the compiler needs to check that all types in C have a + operator. If the type set of C is empty, then that's true - all types in the empty set have the + operator.
Thank you. It's getting very tiring to debunk this every time.
On my world, Firefox no longer makes part of browser matrixes, and is mostly ignored by QA teams.

If it wasn't for Safari, most Webdevs could update their CV as ChromeOS developer.
I suspect the main issue is with storing data from RAM to disk, not with the actual processing of said data.

I once managed something similar, and people mentioned I was obviously drunk when I got to the destination, but I still managed to get there unassisted. No memory of it the day after, though.
Very few people need seasonal storage, most people are on a grid connected to somewhere closer to the equator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid
If everybody mis-uses a word then they're not mis-using it at all, the meaning of the word has simply changed.
That sounds more like success in spite of a lack of market interest, not because of it. The amount of successful products that started on the inverse likely will massively outweigh these anecdotal experiences.
Web Scale was first a meme, than an ideal everyone pushes towards even when deploying their small scale blog. Who knows what'll happen if suddenly you get a million concurrent users tomorrow? Better scale it geographically and put it behind a CDN today. Look at those generous free tiers.

Like you said, it's mostly snake oil except for very big players.
> But my observation is also that it's dying slowly.

Is it? I'm not on it every day, but I don't really notice a change. Isn't it just that it isn't growing, at least not as much as the explosions of web-based, proprietary platforms like twitter or slack?
You don’t need that if you earn $200k a year, have two kinds of stockbroker licenses, or are good at lying.

I signed up for some accredited investor sites after passing via the income rule and was kind of annoyed that it just causes people to call you who expect you to have $50k to invest like it’s pocket change.
Why were people willing to pay a three digit APR yield to borrow assets then just keep those assets doing nothing at all?
> To be clear here, the tradeoff being made is that it is more important that the compiler is fast than that it is able to tell programmers about clear bugs in their code.

I'm not sure that's entirely true. Or it seems at least misleading.

"Fast" here means "guaranteed to finish before the heat death of the universe", in the worst case.

And as I'm trying to explain in the post, it is easier to explain clear bugs to the programmer, if you don't have to rely on solving NP-complete problems. NP-complete problems are notoriously hard to report errors for, which the user understands.
Yeah the days of being accepted into YC meaning anything are long gone, they're investing in pretty much anything these days. On the whole I think YC is a lite version of a rugpull though I don't really mean that as some sort of scathing criticism, it's par for the course.

That's just the way most businesses operate, you build up trust and provide loads of value when you're small. Then, as you expand you take advantage of the trust-inertia to exploit the gap between how much value you are perceived to provide and how much value you actually have to provide to keep getting money (or equity) from people and giving it to yourself.
bitcoin.org is not owned by bitcoin project.

There is some tug-of-war going on about that domain that's too stupid to even talk about. (As are all the stupid "what is true bitcoin???" debates of 2017-ish.)

The actual Bitcoin domain is https://bitcoincore.org and they link Libera there.
FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware
The scientists did an experiment and showed that their theory about very tiny bits of stuff is what had been predicted by a theory we came up with about 50 years ago.

At a higher level than 5, they have experimental evidence for an aspect of QCD, which deals with the internal structure of protons and neutrons, which had previously been untested. Their results also show that the charm quark has some mass.
> Only in liberal blue NYC does a black shooter get taken into custody, elsewhere they get shot by cops. White shooters are always getting coddled and taken in alive by LEOs

I'm afraid you're simply mistaken. Adjusted for rate of violent crime [1], police use of lethal force is similar for both whites and blacks [2]. But I understand why you think so - the journalist that dared honestly report this got fired for it.

> the proposal is literally that white people are treated harsher than black people when a mass shooter.

I didn't intend to comment on the treatment of the mass shooters themselves at all, but on how different mass shootings are treated in the national conversation.

[1] Defined by nearly any measure, including ones the police cannot (easily) fudge, such as homicide rate and victimization surveys that bypass the police entirely.

[2] https://kriegman.substack.com/p/post-leading-to-termination-...