skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA complains about browser intermediate cache behavior but doesn't seem to realize that if you're relying on browser intermediate caching at all, your server is misconfigured. The lesson should be "fix your server", not "those darn browsers."
Have they fixed the import require ... incompatibility mess?
You are moving the goal post here. 15% is not 0.75%. The probability of returning 15% consistently is significantly lower than 0.75%.

If you guaranteed 0.75% to your customers and do not deliver, then you are liable. What you are describing is arbitrage and not what this scenario is about.
> There is absolutely zero legal usecase for cryptocurrencies. None. "oh but it might be useful for doing-" you are wrong. Full stop.

What's with the dismissive, ignorant and hostile attitude? There are plenty of legal businesses that will accept cryptocurrencies - Mullvad VPN for example.

> Cryptocurrencies have many great uses. You can gamble with them, you can buy drugs with them [...]

Why are you surprised? Replace "cryptocurrencies" with "cash" and the same use cases apply, it's a currency after all, facilitating transactions is the core purpose of cryptocurrencies.

> EVERY SINGLE OTHER USE, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, is something that centralized systems already do well.

Yes, centralized systems handle most of our transactions just fine, most of the time. Do you expect people to have to argue in favor of choice while setting an impossibly high bar for any kind of competition?

Do you believe in freedom of speech?
Well, threads come with their own myriad problems.

Aside from isolation, with separate process one can start/stop/kill from outside in a more sysadmin-friendly way, but also upgrade gradually. I often use these kinds of mechanisms for control-planes or one writer / thousands of readers schemes (to share huge parameters or look up tables...). It's somehow far more efficient and easier to design than pub/sub or database requests and wasting loads of memory on N copies of the same data. Start the process, map the structures and go.
If we are to believe the shooter's manifesto; he heavily used Reddit and was a relatively new user of 4chan, which he initially browsed due to boredom when he heard about it having a board about firearms (something he obsessively posted about on Reddit) called '/k/' and a board about the outdoors called '/out/.' He then found a board about politics called '/pol/' which lead him to discover full fledged hardcore neo-nazi websites which promote violence, sites which he lists. These being; "The Daily Stormer," "World Truth Videos," and "Daily Archives." After this point he says he started agreeing with these distorted world views.

I believe the concern is that by focusing only on the platforms he used to "stream, promote, or plan the event" the probe is effectively neutered and won't lead to real change. It appears that the three neo-nazi websites he discovered through messages on the /pol/ board of 4chan are the most culpable in his radicalization, but these three key sites that hold this culpability are not mentioned as being targets of the probe. Also in his manifesto the 8chan link appears to go to a real working website called 8chan, but it is not the url of the actual 8chan website according to a quick google search.

This leads to even more questions too, like why did they not mention if they would also probe police conduct when they allowed him to have firearms. Despite him making a shooting threat that was investigated prior?
Software. Let the user test it. We need to deliver. Unfortunately, this has become the norm.
I thoroughly appreciate the honesty and bluntness. I tinker 1/10th as much as I used to, and... honestly even that amount makes me feel that my head is deeply wedged in my ass, on account of how little utility, education, or enjoyment it brings compared to... pretty much anything else. Only a small fraction winds up being anything other than throwaway, so before I start coding, I try to do a lot of research to figure out if it's worth it or not.

I wonder if trying non-REPL oriented coding would be a useful change of pace. I've never used one in any significant way, beyond a bit of debugging, but it seems like REPL programming is like a whole different way of thinking.

My "Extremist Anti-tinkering" workflow is pretty much:

1. Survey all existing solutions. Find out if I can avoid the whole project and use something off the shelf

2. Look for libraries and frameworks that do most of it. Look for the super high level integrated and enterprisy stuff.

3. If something takes more than 5 minutes, start getting suspicious that it will be a continual challenge not just a one time learning curve, start looking at other things.

4. If I think I might have to explain something to someone, assume they won't be interested, and look for something they already know.

5. For design decisions, look at similar things and copy their architecture, UI concepts, etc. Maybe I'm not actually making a traditional TV remote... but can I model my protocol on Roku's ECP?

6. Instead of Agile continual refactoring, continually and aggressively look at what interesting new things to get rid of and replace with something standard. Users and passwords? Can you just use pass through the auth request to Linux system accounts?

7. Look at the documentation. If there's any documentation you can eliminate by adding more code to automate something, do that.

8. Use the linter. Use type hints. Don't use deprecated APIs. Use the debugger. Use the recommended project template. Use the configuration everyone else uses. Code in such a way the average StackOverflow poster would approve.

Basically, I try to code things that a suckless fan would spit on, and a captain in Star Trek would love.

A lot of great things have come from tinkering... but the tech community acts like it's the be all and end all of development, and takes it way too far.
While I was at AWS I managed to catch a couple of internal presentations from James Hamilton where he went deep into their global network infrastructure. It’s something that’s way outside my wheelhouse but that I find fascinating nonetheless.

In particular I always found the discussion about dealing with failure of global infrastructure that’s sitting in the ocean floor particularly intriguing. One non-obvious (to me at least) aspect was what do you do if there’s a failure of the power feed equipment that’s driving the cable. In most cases the answer was “double the voltage until you can repair it properly”. He explains it far better than I ever could on his blog: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/01/cs-responder-trans...
I also think we should let Luna die.

https://www.worldofcrypto.io/blog/we-should-let-luna-die
not sure, but with specific search on google I end up on very concise old personal webpages with deep knowledge. I dont need wannabe reviews on prepubere communities websites that dont makes sense. If i search for garden i want personal webpages with gound knowledge, not a medium article on how to yoga in a community rentee garden on rooftop. Google helps me find universe old webpages
I'm not really sure it's true for the billion businesses. How many billion+ businesses were cretated in the past 100 years? Maybe 10,000? And how many people played in the NFL during last 100 years? The Internet says it 23,204. And that's just football, if you compare across all high paying pro sports, then number must be in hundreds of thousands.
As fast as people who grew up with it die ;-)
No, the comment did make it sound like it was PG’s resilience that saved the data. In fact that seems to be the whole point of the comment.

So the snark does seem out of place and the clarification useful.
Wow. Tracks. This threw me back about 15 years. Good to see it’s still maintained.

https://www.getontracks.org/
Yes, upgrades and downgrades were painful for me too. I think it's due to different subscription dates between all our customers, having to create specific code for each edge case. In the end, it works, but so much harder than I thought
The fact that they promised to redeem some UST deposits 1:1 with the dollar after the peg had failed, presumably using other customers funds tells me they were not just a custodian.

I wouldn't be surprised if friends of the founders got a half hour heads up before that 08:55 tweet... So that they could withdraw their money at full value.
Sure, but technology doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the political will, finance, a skilled workforce, industrial capacity etc. Solar just wins in those areas.

And the maths works fine if you can build that capacity fast and cheap enough.
So what does communication mean in this context? And is that a shared meaning among all participants?

Unless it's clearly defined I don't see how anyone can measure it in a meaningful way.

This seems to be treating communication as some kind of qualitative abstract.

"On a scale of 1 to 4 stars, how much did your spouse love you last Wednesday?" That tells me more about the esteem of the respondent than it does about the state of the person we're trying to evaluate.
Thanks for posting this reply to the article, I thought you had taken it down because half the people commenting seem to have forgotten a real human being exists behind the blog post.

Looking forward to reading it when you publish the revised version, though I'm unsure how I would know. (I guess I should check and see if you have RSS)

I wish the civility rules were enforced here a bit more stringently sometimes.
Ha ha! I completely loath real estate, and I think I am an engineer type on the spectrum. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think you are committing the error I am trying to point out: don’t treat your living requirements 100% as an investment.

That said, your living choice always has an investment decision component, because most of us need one roof over our head. If renting, you are shorting the home ownership market (a renter owns zero bedrooms but needs one bedroom). Making the decision to rent is either (a) betting against the real estate market (shorting), or (b) betting that one can make better returns through other investments.

The deeper point is that we should try to optimise for our internal joy, and nobody should measure their success only in metric dollars.
so my autistic child likes eating the rind if he can get a hold of it. Rinds are edible, so this is another case really of companies also screwing over the consumer - here are recipes you can use with the rind https://www.eataly.com/us_en/magazine/how-to/leftover-parmes... , although I guess not any more?
Yeah suffering from that too; we need an internet-wide PSA that people should just s/freenode/libera/ whenever they see/read/hear it somewhere. :-)
America seems to have a blase culture about actually preventing these mass-shootings after they occur outside of virtue-signaling (see the popular Onion trope "No Way to Prevent This") but at the same time one could have the concern of certain entities unfairly targeting certain otherwise benign platforms that may have been used by individuals encouraging certain criminal acts with liability thus leading to concerns like the stripping of Section 230 publisher protections and the resulting chilling effects on free-speech.
While I'm no longer using IRC, I'm happy to see Libera.Chat succeed. Godspeed!
Be careful. Stay at one of these places too long, or work at too many in a row, and you’ll end up so burned out that you won’t be able to even entertain the idea of programming ever again for quite some time. Been there, got the t-shirt.
See, that is what I took point with, because devs != UNIX CLI as it seems to be cargo cult in some circles.
I am not sure I understand the question. Yes, I keep the doors and windows closed in the winter; it is cold outside. Do you normally leave them open? Ultimately, I am getting the same total heat from the heat pump as I was from the boiler (kind of by definition).
They just raised $3 million last month too.

I assume they might need some more.

https://blog.stablegains.com/we-raised-3-million-and-are-hir...
Definitely agree.

I've found interviewing via video call is absolutely terrible compared to in person.

So damn hard to describe architecture without a whiteboard. And humans just seem to communicate better when you're in the same space.
> Many websites decide to include Google's stalking scripts and it should be trivial for Google to put scan the domains these scripts run on and warn the website administrators about their bad configuration.

The Google Webmaster Console actually does warn you about all issues regarding your site's ability to be indexed, including SSL issues.
> In go, if you want a macro, you write a separate go program that generates code, write a "//go:generate" comment, and then have no way of knowing when to run it, no way of having incremental compilation with it, and it invariably ends up being slower than the compiler expanding it itself would have been.

1. Macros are just one use case replaced by go:generate step.

2. go:generated files are usually not the most moving parts while developing (except of course while you write the generator or its input. In fact go:embed has allowed to move some generated files to compile time and have not seen the need to replace go:generate with go:embed for those. (Does anyone has a compile benchmark?)

2. The Go compiler already uses caches and we can expect more and more caching will happen in future releases.

So I'm really not concerned by the compile time of files produced by go:generate instead of macros.
It is not but it's half a millimeter and inert. I guess that all of us had sand in our mouths and occasionally ingested part of it. Furthermore we shouldn't have that part of the cheese.
How to use String includes() in JavaScript
> why did they not mention if they would also probe police conduct when they allowed him to have firearms

The NRA has lobbyists and 4chan doesn’t.
I have never seen one quite as byzantine as the USA.
Where do they specifically exclude the risk of depegging?

From their website :
"As Stablegains is not a traditional US bank, the funds are not secured by the FDIC. While we aim to make every effort to understand and mitigate everything that can possibly go wrong, there is still a non-zero risk you can lose your deposit. Our advice is to diversify and never invest all of your savings in a single place."

Of course they are selling themselves as pretty safe, and I'm sure they thought they were.
But as you mention, it's like the 10th stablecoin to drop, so it's not exactly a surprise that crypto is a risky investment in any case.
I don't see anything wrong with that.

I've been part of a community which forked in the past and it was so cringe (at least to me) for one of the sides to keep explaining the origins and such on each and every presentation even 10 years later.

Anyone who knew Freenode knows the story already, and does any newcomer need to know, on that very blog post? I'd say no.
> when the product is mandatory for life

Would you say food is in that category? The free market is the only system that has ever provided a consistent food surplus. The US, with its free market, became the first country with food security and you can see it in the statistics - the average height of Americans increased throughout the 19th century, peaking out around WW2.

> why we don't put municipal water on the free market

Instead we have water intensive almonds being grown in an arid area undergoing a record drought, alongside the government blocking desalination plants (California)

> why Texas can't keep the lights on

Texas is undergoing a record heat wave. Rolling blackouts are predicted this summer for California.

> no sane country would try to distribute healthcare on a free market

Health care in the US was cheap before the government got involved in it.
55yo cardiologist busted creating ransomware
I guess that's why almost every successful corporation (some of them larger than small cities by population and larger than small nations by GDP) does central economic planning.
a long time ago addy made some demo page showing the use of webcam and displaying it on the screen and capturing a screenshot of the webcam view. It helped me out more than once
That's an interesting take. You're probably right, if we make majority of people feel "beneath" the median path in life, most of them are bound to become depressed. Hardly anyone can be that special snowflake and create a successful startup, video game etc. And yet modern American culture is saying that you should go out and try doing it anyway. Guess what happens if you do...
230$ apparently [0]

[0]: https://www.kraftmusic.com/brands/korg/synthesizers/nts2
As someone who’s worked for the CMS experiment of LHC, I can assure you QED is fucking well tested in reality and isn’t “based on a single experimental value”, so the paper is indeed nonsense.

It isn’t the answer to everything because the electromagnetic force isn’t the only fundamental interaction and we don’t have a theory of everything. But QED explains one of the fundamental interactions far better than the paper tries to paint it. See The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov.
> The end user can specify their own colours and fonts.

Most don't though, unless your audience is technical.
Is this a tit for tat, or just part of removing Russia from the troublesome Internet?
This is the Economy 101 lesson that many don't know (or pretend they don't)

The only ones that can "promise" a yield are sellers of titles for a fixed period. Anything else is an estimate at best
Tax codes are hard. “Get the government to build an API” now you have two problems….

Source used (non-US) government api to do with legislation. The freaking ambiguity and cludges. Luckily they had a team of good people to help.
This also doesn't count time spent thinking about / gathering / preparing / cleaning up w.r.t. food, hygiene, etc. GP is just another dismissive comment.

Exercise is also a job to me.
How about average height? Check out the US figures for the 19th century. Height turns out to be a very good proxy of prosperity.
I want type check to be fast, directly in my editor.

Linting can happen asynchronously in CI.
Ah yes, playing it in the library at school was good fun, in Denmark it was mostly called Babyskak.

It was also an excellent way of introducing chess in a fun way, much like Duck Chess.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess
Is there a sandbox example independent of Kubernetes?
Apple sold Dylan to Harlequin, which sold it as a DylanWorks for some time.

Smalltalk still has commercial implementations, like Cincom.

https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/
Mainstream censors non-mainstream, hence for half a century we are staying in place e.g. quantum gravity, there are appearing new problems ...

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-standard-particle-physics-brok...

The paper claims there are problems already with g-factor, could anybody explain why its objections are not valid?
What has Bill Gates forced you to do?
Member of the Wu Tang Clan, the band behind Da Mystery of Chessboxin
Super parent's link is about a sport called chess boxing
Is there any hints at this being the case? I could just as much see him somehow doubling down on everything, twisting it as purging the network from bad actors and that the current state of freenode is actually what he wanted in the first place, or god-knows-what...
I strongly suspect that a lot of those FOSS projects are backed by Red Hat, hence why they're using Quay, it's also Red Hat.

If they're not, I'm guessing there's favourable terms for FOSS projects, RH's entire business model is open source that they'll sell you support for.

And I fully agree that that banner is a terrible look.
You're free to leave the US. The border fence is to keep people out, not in.
What does TC mean in this context ?
I don't recall seeing this taking any more time than being instantaneous so that in itself wouldn't be a UX problem, but I also do like when things are not unnecessarily wasteful, so grateful for that cleaner approach :).

Tbh, I dislike web programming and anything close to DOM, I'm more of a backend and embedded kind of guy. I haven't had success in making a similar one that removes "overflow: hidden" from all elements. That in combo with removing anything with fixed position is a quick and dirty way of bypassing GDPR pop-ups.

Say you come to a new site, eg via a HN link. Boom, I have to indicate my stance towards tracking and ads by rejecting all cookies, and objecting to "legitimate" interests. That takes time, so instead I have a bookmarklet that removes anything with position:fixed (the gdpr pop-up). The second piece would be re-enabling scroll by disabling the "overflow: hidden". I do this manually now by inspecting.
What is YCombinator’s “board”? Re their directory profile: every public YC company has one, even my defunct 11 year old startup —- it’s definitely not an active endorsement.
Ask HN: Non-obvious ways we seek status or communicate success?
Subconsciously or not, we often seek some form of status.

For instance, some material possessions may get extended beyond the utility as a way to communicate the level success or traits associated with the material.

It feel like there are some obvious ones. Like living in a certain neighborhood, buying a certain brand of clothes/cars, having a certain title at work, etc..

What are some of the non-obvious ways that you observed?
It was kind of nuts to see so many pages that weren't updated in years change their links.
Given our history of creating solutions to problems and dealing with side-effects later, I'd love to first see plenty of research explaining how is this not gonna go out of hand in a few years.
Just to remind everyone, the decline in sperm count is across species, not just in humans.

So while yes, for people it may be less of an issue, the same cannot be said for wildlife, where it becomes another nail in the extinction coffin.
I don't understand, you'd rather work without a CI pipeline?
> there was no such probe for the DC sniper attacks that killed 1

I can think of two reasons. One, the perpetrators didn’t use social media, and two, there was no social media for them to use.
> In a discussion about a mass murder of black people.

Of course, when the victims are white, it's not a mass murder of white people - it's just a mass murder of people.
Three years makes a big difference if he was, say, 12 when Morrowind was released. And while I wouldn't call it convoluted, Planescape: Torment is much more cerebral and much less experiential than an open world first person RPG.
This tool saved me when we realized that the ssl cert bundle we had included the wrong intermediate certificates by default.

https://www.digicert.com/help/

I really would have love to find a tool that would just spit out the right intermediate certificate for your ssl certificate.
Despite what HN tells you, you can actually live a fulfilling, interesting life without startups, side projects and blog writing. IT is fascinating and it has endless possibilities, but it isn't everything there is
Hand sanatisation and washing was a big red herring. The original evidence bandied around were old studies that show how you reduce infections of various kinds (mainly GI) in villages in Zaire that didn't have running water. Given them running water and ask them to wash their hands and it helped. Well of course it did. Doesn't mean it is at all applicable to the west in this particular situation.

A gargantuan waste of time and money, it lies as a clear indicator of the dangers of the way public policy is formed and how health advice can very often be as viable as phrenology.

From the same school of science as spraying your streets with disinfectant or wearing masks outdoors.
> "Monkeypox is a rare viral infection that does not spread easily between people. It is usually a mild, self-limiting illness, and most people recover within a few weeks. However, severe illness can occur in some people." Yeah, but so is SARS-CoV-2

But SARS-CoV-2 does spread easily - that’s why we’re having a pandemic. Or are you mainly referring to the rest of the description?