skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I didn't know that it was lighter on system resources, that's interesting. Makes me wonder if a FF-based Electron would ever take off, because the main issue with Electron apps is the insane amount of memory consumption

During my own Great Browser Migration, part of my motivation for going from FF to Chrome was that Chrome caused fewer beachballs when I wasn't even using it (I'm a tab hoarder, so it's my own damn fault, kinda). My switch to Safari came when I realized it almost never caused a beachball (plus the huge battery life improvement).

I'd hope Chrome and FF have both gotten better (this was about ten years ago), but I still use FF off-and-on (though mostly on Windows) and my sense is that it hasn't improved a ton on that front. My understanding is you can fix much of this with various add-ons, though, at least on Firefox (less sure about Chrome). The Great Suspender, stuff like that. I've not used them, though.
See timestamp 23:55 in this tech talk:

https://archive.org/details/hopeconf2020/20200726_2000_Peopl...

FirstnameNumbers is the default Twitter username generation policy. It doesn't imply it's a spam account.
Ok but that still doesn't make it mainstream or have a candidate pool. If those things don't matter then anything goes.
I’ll try, but there’s no way if the core argument expresses a sentiment a large enough portion of the thread participants agree with.

I think there’s very little traditional trolling on HN (you likely won’t hardly ever see it without showdead on). The problem is when you open a thread that blatantly off topic (but it’s ok because nowadays we play really loose with submission guidelines, and use more general guidelines to invalidate more specific ones)

The problem is these make it onto the front page, and it’s just disingenuous flamewarring all the way down. You’ll never beat that.
any links? (on the hirings)
China can easily lift its zero-covid policies whenever it wants, but the global supply chain disruption will reverberate long after it does so. Hasn't zero covid just pushed up prices on Chinese goods and services? I question whether this is a concerted, smarter strategy with a longer term outlook than the media likes to estimate -- China pivots this draconian strategy whenever it wants, and the world just returns to leveraging them at higher prices.
> The VC-22 was quickly assembled in a little more than a month.

Most incredible takeaway from the article.
This I disagree with a lot. Ansible does have a lot of unfinished playbooks out there or half baked ones. But there is solid documentation there which makes it pretty clear how to properly design things. Have a feeling people just don't read it.

For work related use cases, I find it very unlikely you would ever pull in a git repo or playbook from galaxy. Coming from Puppet, Chef I always thought Puppet was in a bad state but then I realized it is 2022 and Ansible has exactly zero roles for LDAP that work, or even resemble a thing that would ever make sense to run in a real installation.

Also, if we're talking about what code would run on which server, I do not see where other configuration management tools would perform better. Have you seen the humongous mess one needs to do in Puppet and Hiera when one wants to build a configuration that is multi-os and multi-arch (like just a simple Debian/Ubuntu plus x86_64/aarch scenario not even Windows)? Or even what it would be like if one also manages firmware blobs there?

If I may be so frank... configuration management is a shit show on every available solution. And I am saying that as someone actively being a part of these ecosystems and contributing.
it was an abandonware until last year
How about photonic circuits?
20% APY for staking UST
I think this is true for some of the pets (e.g. many birds are quite dumb), but pigs are one of the most intelligent mammals, and cows are not dumb either.
This article contains no instances of the word "test", which seems surprising but entirely in keeping with the author's observations.

> Julia has no formal notion of interfaces, generic functions tend to leave their semantics unspecified in edge cases, and the nature of many common implicit interfaces has not been made precise (for example, there is no agreement in the Julia community on what a number is).

> The Julia community is full of capable and talented people who are generous with their time, work, and expertise. But systemic problems like this can rarely be solved from the bottom up, and my sense is that the project leadership does not agree that there is a serious correctness problem. They accept the existence of individual isolated issues, but not the pattern that those issues imply.

It sounds like the cultural standard for writing libraries is, "works good enough for users like me" which should be good if you are using things the same way as the authors. Writing good tests for numerics is hard and grueling; testing numerics or numerics-like code is not nearly as fun or productive-feeling as using numerics to get shit done, so it all makes sense to me.
It's beautiful to see nature healing
Yes really the whole point of it is to let go of your grip on reality
What was your level of practice before going into the retreat? Did you go in 'cold'? What would you recommend for people who are considering it?
So for 10 years, the author read some books, occasionally did sitting meditation but only briefly and not getting anywhere, took no classes, got guidance from no teachers, did no retreats, etc, and ends the piece with a teaser for the next article/email.

I feel like if someone wrote that they wanted to understand computation, and over the course of 10 years they read Godel Escher Bach and some Smullyan puzzles, and occasionally pulled up a python interpreter to play with stuff for minutes at a time, and each time got bored and gave up, we wouldn't find it especially interesting that they hadn't reached any deep and satisfying understanding.

I'd like to be a better cook, and I read through Salt Fat Acid Heat and sometimes I try to make something more planned and effortful than I normally would, but over the past 10 years I have taken no cooking classes, made only sporadic efforts to learn more, and so I'm not surprised that my ability in the kitchen hasn't changed much.

What you get out of an endeavor is related to what you put in.
But if you have difficulty sticking with it, maybe introduce stuff in your life that helps you maintain that effort? My meditation practice was most consistent when I was doing a class that met weekly. In addition to guidance and instruction, there was always some component of sharing or discussing experiences, asking questions, etc. Even if it's not a "sangha" per se, having a regular, structured, social interaction attached to your practice can really help. As can having a more knowledgeable teacher, rather than just a pile of books.
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Student Loan Borrowers Don’t Deserve Forgiveness – They Deserve an Apology
Wordpress was first released in 2003. There wasn't a database abstraction layer for PHP at the time (PDO was first released in 2005), so it was tightly coupled to MySQL.
The problem is that it seems like the nonsensers just close up shop, move down the street, and reopen another scam under a different name. And it seems like the community never learns its lessons, which is that onerous financial regulations were made to prevent these "wildcat bank failure of the month" occurrences that we keep seeing.
this is the best thing I have ever seen. Its art, engineering, biology and sociology. Do you write blog posts about it?
Does anyone have insight to what legal exposure (if any) creator Do Kwon has? In an regulated market does he just walk away?
https://github.com/rollcat/judo - my side project.
The ratio you're talking about is the amount that needs to be in the bank's account with the Federal Reserve as a fraction of its total liabilities. Only the money in that bank account qualifies for that reserve ratio; holding on to a literal stack of dollar bills in a bank vault somewhere does not.

That ratio is 0% because it's been judged that there are better ways to require solvency than doing that (chiefly, requiring capital buffers).
I always thought phone numbers had to be unique per discord account: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600524...
Meld is excellent, cool to see a port for Mac too!
You clearly haven’t been reading then.
webkit leads the dance for once, with their amazing h265 support
Depends how you measure "reaching", i.e. all refactorings and optimisations all reach the customer technically "reach" the customer as soon as they're deployed (essentially, anything that meets its definition-of-done is "delivered). I think the wider idea is to measure work being interrupted and abandoned, or being abandoned due to not being necessary, both of which could be dubbed signs of inefficiency.
I agree there were perception failures, but that's besides the point. The car made a plan to drive on the wrong side of the road. It shouldn't ever do that, no matter what it perceives. It's illegal whether or not there's oncoming traffic. You can't blame sensors for those kinds of logic errors.

On the plus side, the computer did say "I'm sorry" after almost killing the driver. So I guess that's something.
So just defi lending protocol Scream correct ? Not DEFI lender debt as a whole…
It's not subjective. The fundamental meaning of an index is "how far are we from the start of an array". The first element is 0 from the start of the array.

If humans had got this right then we wouldn't be even having this discussion. Same for similar mistakes like Pi vs Tau, negative electrons. But the mistake is understandable given that we didn't even think of 0 for a long time.
What does fast "natural implementations" mean? Runtime? Compile-time? Because if one sacrifices the latter for the former, I think that skirts over the main benefit.

With dynamic, interpreted languages that have effectively zero compile-time, one can achieve significantly tighter iteration cycles across a team, ending up limited more by test suite runtime than by slow edit/recompile cycles. This leads to higher productivity across an engineering organization with a quickly evolving codebase. Not important for all use cases, but pretty critical for many.
You might be thinking of unlimited supercharging - that was initially tied to the car, then they started removing it if the car was moved to another account.
when will they support sharedworkers..
Many companies do, in fact, implement different rules and data retention for those two circumstances.

Source: I've helped several, and talked to peers who work in data protection.
Pretty sure of Ebola went airborne you wouldn’t need to use government force to keep people at home.

Covid needed a marketing campaign and a healthy dose of 24/7 media fearmongering to get anybody to “take it serious”. And even then a good chunk of people called BS on it pretty quickly.

If there was airborne Ebola and dudes were dropping dead on the streets with blood coming out of every orifice… totally different scenario.
It's in the works: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18776
I don't see how housing could cause a net migration away. The number of houses keeps going up. Unless you think that house inventory is shrinking (because growth of vacancies, etc outpace construction) at most housing prices should just determine who lives there.
That's correct. They wanted me to use a phone of someone who doesn't otherwise use Discord (specifically they suggested using my wife's phone).
They're still at the basic research stage, with no real path to practical applications yet.
He did reply more: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526250477456965634

At the end of the day if you buy Twitter ads and Twitter is getting paid depending on traffic, they have no incentive to remove spam accounts.
Why is the decibel scale logarithmic?
Very cool dude. Thanks for your work on this. I'll come back to dokku eventually :)
I prefer native packaging. Snap and Flatpak are both pretty useless IMO, but I'll reach for Snap over Flatpak if those were my only two options. Partially to spite the Flatpak philosophy, but also because only Snap will let me install local services.

Oh, and AppImage is leages beyond both of them.
A Student-T Model of Long-Tailed Distributions
And also extensively used for privacy invasive tracking (1) there is no same-origin restriction for link prefetching and (2) it allow cookies to be planted from tracking servers. ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Link_prefe... ).
Georgism Substack: The Evolutionary Blueprint
uh yes exactly? thats the only reason they bought the bitcoin in the first place

Terra Luna was already stupid enough, its stupid to make this part controversial because that was the purpose of this collateral, just as its stupid to not believe the bitcoin was sold after transfer to the exchanges (many people believe that its still owned, or was given to some whales to bail just them out, or the founder keeps it for himself)

https://bitcoinist.com/terra-luna-will-buy-10-billion-worth-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-04-19/crypto...
What does being on a blockchain get you in a digital TCG that a centralized server can't?
I would argue Zen Buddhism is secular, so I'm not quite sure the distinction you're trying to make.
The final outcome in Grafana looks like is covering most of Microsoft Application Insights features! Having self hosted alternative to a cloud service is a great boon for to the on premise projects that need observability but cannot use public cloud
For the benefit of anyone who doesn't have a lot of experience with call, bind and arrow functions ()=>{}.
No, these don't supplant one another and are separately useful in various ways. Reading the linked articles shows some of the related situations.
It’s also available for free on Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500
> And are Hindu or Christian meditation practices dangerous, or just the secular stuff? What precisely is the nature of this danger?

I don't think the argument is usually "meditation without Buddhism is dangerous" but rather "meditation techniques taken from their context can be dangerous". Regular mindfulness or insight meditation can cause shifts in mental state that a person isn't used to and they may not have the tools required to deal with it in a healthy manner.

It's like the mental equivalent of a normal person suddenly starting the same workout routine as an professional athlete, or even just an experienced weightlifter. They might be able to do the exercises, but they don't have the context provided by having a coach/being in the sport/etc to provide them with tools like "how to fall properly" or "knowing a torn muscle versus a normal sprain". That doesn't mean that doing the exercises in general are bad or that you need to do sport foo in order to exercise.
We are here.

without purpose.

we ascribe purpose to our abilities and faculties by choice
Some of my favourite musicians have "ticket to every show for life" NFTs which are pretty neat and definitely not a scam. Being able to resell or buy that privileged at market value to/from someone else directly is great.
> and some kind of probationary period before permanent hire

I had this same experience with a company about a decade ago. I'd been in a job for about 8 years where I was an expert in a few niche areas.

One day a CEO of some company calls and says I'd be "perfect" for his company and would I be interested? I say of course, and in the end it comes out that I would have to endure a 6-month probationary period where you didn't have benefits (I'm not even sure this is legal in California).

I politely turned him down, and he actually called back about an hour later incredulous that I wouldn't consider an offer? And I explained to him, I was in a job that was relatively stable, why would I leave that job only to have benefits dangled in front of me.

I also pointed out the asymmetry of them asking me to leave a position I'd been in for multiple years while they couldn't commit to a "perfect" candidate.

It fell on deaf ears. The dude was used to getting what he wanted.
Yeah I kinda knew I'd regret mentioning any specific feature of ruby that one in particular.

Anyway it doesn't matter. The point was that they presumably have identified certain things ruby does well for them and have invested heavily in them. If ruby does other things less well then abandoning ship for an unknown set of tradeoffs is a riskier move than improving the specific weaknesses that are their obstacles.

What ruby's inherent strengths are or even if they exist at all doesn't matter as much as their investment and expertise in them does.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396810.
Hi I just left CA. SOCAL is turning into a 3rd world country with trash and homeless everywhere. Policies that allow naked homeless machete waving people to kidnap people from the street biting them in the neck and then released the next day. Want to have a gun to protect yourself? Too bad there’s a war on guns so only the criminals seem to have them. Call the police on somebody meandering into your home? They probably won’t come. And don’t protect yourself because the state might charge you. The woke SJW is getting out of control. Some other state is now getting my tax money. The weather was great, though.

Now why is that such a catchphrase?
The word "neglect" as it is used creates an incorrect framing. But is actually a great word. The whole problem with Nuclear in the US is that we neglect the projects. Our plan around large, long-term nuclear creates a vicious incentive structure. Recouping billion-dollar investments leads to to nuclear plants being run as long and as cheaply as possible.

This is a recipe for disaster.
Until we figure that part out, we are correct to hold off building them.

Perhaps a better framing is "We've neglected to figure out an incentive system that allows us to build, safely maintain and safely decommission nuclear projects."
For a long time I didn't know where to start with backups, because I was convinced that incomplete or unreliable backups were a total waste of time and money. (Which tbf isn't 100% false.)

Eventually I realized that some backups are better than no backups at all, and prioritized getting _something_ in place to at the very least have copies of important files copied regularly to another drive somewhere.
Where would the community, mindshare, and hiring pool be? Or would you have to innovate on how you come up with that (on top of your core product) to accomplish anything there?
I run a data aggregation company that has a fairly advanced scraping infrastructure for collecting data across the web. Having built the scraping side, I'm pretty familiar with most of the strategies for avoiding bot detection.

Coming from that perspective, detecting and stopping at least the majority of bots out there is fairly doable, and I put together a rudimentary thing for a side project.

The core of it uses an IP API for looking up the requesting IP to identify the country and if it's coming from a data center, VPN, Tor, etc. If it passes that, I trigger Google Captcha to show up. Lastly, I track IPs that make it through and have some basic rules in place to try to detect patterns and block offenders that way.

There's a bunch more stuff you can check for, but the core of it is basically filtering out data center traffic to minimize the requests going to Google Captcha.
Yep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384033
Almost sounds like it is justified to add a javascript crypto miner to your pages to make the bots pay for the use of your service.
Is there any sane reason why in all standard modules the keyword “src” has 3 letters but “dest” has 4 letters instead of “dst”, which is pretty standard everywhere? Drives me crazy every time.
Total tangent, but now I'm curious...

If a U.S. corporation has a registered mail address for legal service, is there ever a need to get a process server involved?
I experienced 2001 and 2008. In 2001, f**kedcompany.com was daily reading to find out which random startup(s) went under that day. For me, every company meeting was the one where I wondered if we were all being fired. I started as employee #45 at a company, which then grew to over 150, and then shrank back down to 40. The world of 2008 felt (to me) more like a global economic calamity vs. tech explosion.

In both of those cases, tech compensation felt more "normal" and getting a low six-figure exit felt like the best-case scenario. No one I knew was looking for unicorns or otherwise expecting life-changing money. Fast forward a few years, and it feels like everything changed. People started making massive piles of cash and everyone was looking for a unicorn.

What happens now? I'm not sure. I think the market gets a little tighter, but I don't think it's a crash. The world is software, and there's only going to be more of it. With such high stakes, any slowdown will be temporary until VC money gets sick of not being spent (and not making returns).
No, that would lead you to conclude that all people have problems
I’m in a similar boat with https://mailpace.com

No funding, just a simple business that I enjoy building.

If you create great software that delights your users, what more do you need?
>Others use bitcoin as their primary currency.

No, not really.

While some crypto-enthusiasts are using BTC as hobby money (in which most payment processors convert to USD right away anyway) the vast majority of people using BTC are speculators.
Thank you very much, I will take a look. Do you know of such ideas in The World as Will and Representation ?
Apple makes both its browser and its hardware, so it's not really a chicken/egg problem for them. But they are a member of Alliance for Open Media, so maybe this WWDC or next they will announce something.
Bootstrapping doesn't make them not P2P though. It's an unfortunately necessary piece of infrastructure for peer discovery.
cpython is the reference implementation and 32% means about 350,000 lines of code. My point stands.
Hydrophobia is a common (albeit bit archaic?) name for the disease generally, inspired by the symptom.
in a regulated market all you would simply have are some codified fiduciary duties and standardized disclosures

Terra Luna and TerraUSD's algorithmic operations were all disclosed publicly and scrutinized in the open sphere

Do Kwon stated publicly why he was buying the bitcoin - to repurchase Terra Luna and TerraUSD because its shitty broken product that might need to be rebought to temporarily help restore its peg - and Do Kwon has stated publicly now why the bitcoin sold - to repurchase Terra Luna and TerraUSD because its shitty broken product that might need to be rebought to temporarily help restore its peg

I think in a regulated market he just walks away just like all investment banks and bankers do

There are plenty of Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) that obtusely say "this is dogshit and its going to fall to zero during a period of volatility" and then fall to zero during a period of volatility

Thats exactly what Terra Luna and TerraUSD did

all regulation would do is standardize the way the disclosure is done, really the most likely thing that comes from this is a regulator mandated additional sentence in a brokerage firm's 40 page disclaimer that you surely will read after consulting your financial advisor.

Its up to the consumer/investor, it always is.
Would be interested in studies- in cats and others- that attempt to differentiate the processing that occurs in response to human utterance, as "words" as we understand them are an abstraction that elide many subtle aspects of communication. Pitch, tone, vocalization duration and speed, mouth position, etc. So many signals there, some of which may be relevant for cats, some not.

Am sure cats are able to distinguish bird types by their voices, and other prey as well, to a much more sophisticated degree than we (our ears) can. Calling those vocalizations "words" almost certainly wrong.
Except for the small detail that nobody cares about invading Russia.