skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My toddler is unaware that there is a whole world of video content made just for him - as far as he knows, the only videos that exist are nature documentary clips, cooking shows, church services and tech conference talks.

I know that as soon as some of his daycare classmates can really start talking, the veil will be pierced and he'll be begging to see (judging by said classmates' t-shirts and backpacks) Paw Patrol, Peppa Pig and Frozen.

And I'm not sure how we're going to deal with that.
Because the volume was almost zero, which it can handle.

The volume now is (in relative terms) slightly above zero, which it cannot handle.
I too enjoy trolling on HN.
> crux of Bitcoins is that its value is derived from people's belief in its value
brave, but .. fail. The crux of BTC is that it is secure to attacks while moving assets that are represented digitally.

Assets whose value is derived from peoples' belief in their future value.

A perfectly secure chain moving around assets that no one values isn't very interesting.
Carding conventions like bidding conventions are public. Let me give you some examples.

When defending a trump contract and you, as a defender, lead a side suit, what card you lead describes your holding. An example is you tend to lead top from an honor (AKQJ are honors) sequence. So if you have QJxx you'll tend to lead the Q. Doing so denies the K (as KQxx has a different lead). It may or may not deny the A depending on what you've agreed upon. So with AQJxx you might lead Q ow low depending on your convention.

Likewise your partner's card tells you something. For one you need to know if they're carding count (how many of that suit they have) or attitude (whether they want you to continue that suit or shift). So upside down attitude means you respond with a low card if you like it (standard ir high as a positive signal but most consider that an inferior treatment as you may waste valuable high cards). The leader can infer the meaning of your signal based on their holding and what's in dummy. Like the leader might have 32 and partner plays the 4. Leader knows this is a positive signal. Declarer who cannot see your 32 might not know this.

This is an example of imperfect information mentioned in the article.

Declarer knows what conventions defenders are playing. Hidden understandings are illegal. You can lie to your partner but if, say, you discourage a lead and your partner continues it and that's the winning play then you may get penalized for that in competitive play.
You updated your post to add this after I said I agree:

> Distributing software without the permission of the author is the definition of software piracy. This is literally software piracy.

It's disagreeable that you'd make such a drastic change under my feet.

So to update my previous stance, I there may be some technical ground but I think users have a right too, to archival, to exploration. Leaving the software with all copy protection intact & in an unusable state for a user is pretty obviously difference than the hard fast clear case you make this out to be. This is pretty obviously different. Technically it's probably not up to snuff but the law is probably not competent in technics & needs to reel itself in to maintain legitemacy.

There is significant public interest in being able to look at & understand & see our past. Microsoft doesnt wish to be a part of that past but I dont believe it grants them the right to make the world forget & become ignorant.
> But I think $`a+b`$ makes more sense (or even $$a+b$$; I mean this is markdown after all, not LaTeX).

True, but it is TeX notation, and `$$ $$` for inline math goes deeply against the experienced TeXnician's intuition. Why intentionally use notation that violates some users' domain intuition when there's an alternative that's no worse?
> I don't see how you can get your money's worth with crypto without ever selling it to someone else.

Which is a characteristic it shares with fiat currency. Of course, fiat currency has people with guns making you accept it as payments for debts.
> Do you think that the NBER, London School of Economics, and MIT harbour idiots that have not heard of exchanges?

Not idiots, just people who want to publish something that will turn into a juicy headline, and don't care much about how closely it aligns with reality.
I went to grad school for business in the mid-80s. I had a computer but I doubt there were more than a handful of other people in my class who had one. While I was there they went from a very limited computer lab in the basement with a few Macs, a Lisa!, and some DEC terminals to a much bigger lab of 286s off the library.
Expertise has its place, but it is not everything.

Also expertise is not the only component to career success, and everything isn't about career success either.
Disturbingly accurate in my case. I've seen many arcane things today - including matches.

(Which TTS are you using? Or have I misunderstood?)
> It feels like generational trauma that will take generations to resolve.

I agree with your point there. In the United States, at least, you have 246 years of slavery (1619 – 1865), followed by 100 years of systemic racism, massacres, lynchings, terror, etc. (1865 – 1965), followed by continual attempts at suppression (1965 – now) and racism, though it has significantly improved. In several generations, it'll be better than it is now, so long as people don't try to forget the past.
Aren't proxy server more performance critical than usual backend code?
If SSR + caching is already working well for you, you might not need ISR. And it likely also depends on the type of application you’re building. For example, if you need user auth on every request, generating static assets probably won’t work since they’re not personalized.

One difference with ISR is that it’s durable, where your cache is not. You can persist the statically built pages to disk, like S3, and be able to roll back to old versions.
Agree but you did the math wrong. Teenagers in 2005 were all over instant messengers and they would only be 30s.
Probably time limits.
Let's unpack that for a second.

"Skill" is probably one of the least valuable metrics of a given hire's performance over time for an employer.

Yes, being able to effectively select for the people most likely to develop a competitive non-extant algorithm is an important metric for certain employers that skill tests will assist with. However, it's as niche to general society as academic studies are.

This is not to say that it's unworthy of practice or attention. In some cases, it's absolutely justified.

What I'm advocating for, however, is skewed towards the broad middle of employment cases - people who are competent, able to solve most day-to-day problems, and not adverse to new practices.

In most cases, people aren't looking to advance the knowledge of a particular field of study. They're just looking to solve problems for their day job while earning appropriate compensation. The employer gets a satisfactory advancement of their capabilities, and the employee gets to enjoy a quality of life they're used to.

The "broad middle" is much messier, but also easier to filter for. As a hiring manager, I would look for people that are A) not obvious assholes, and B) likely to improve my team's performance in some measurable way.

In other words... Company X, which lives and dies by having the absolute latest technology available to humanity, may well need to use code interviews to even establish a baseline performance metric. Company Y, which is just interested in appreciably improving its market share versus a wide cohort, is probably better served by "softer" hiring metrics.
None of htmx's modal examples are accessible, doesn't give me confidence it can be used for serious projects.
How to Turn a Coke Can into an Eavesdropping Device
Interesting to get an more raw insight into Mark's thinking. In some ways its insightful and prescient, but also feels like there is desperation and a kind of throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. I suppose Facebook has/had the resources to do plenty of spaghetti throwing though.

Another observation is that this would have been the moment for Facebook to lean into short video content a la TikTok. But it seems like the video content is just an after thought for Zuck. Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose, but its interesting that they almost got there. Vine already existed at this point and I guess Zuck did not view it as a threat. Perhaps that's one downside of the "defensibility" mindset that seems to pervade this writing and most of the ideas. I get the sense that this is Zuck responding to competitors, and not really crafting a unique vision for Facebook as its own entity.
Why does this get to the front-page of HN is the real question..
The Chinese say "luck is the combination of hard work and opportunity". It requires both. There are limitless scenarios in which the same type of hard work will give you a completely different result, if the opportunity never comes.

This is why I am so annoyed by the Left and the Right simplistic view of this.

The Left: "You are rich because your are privileged!"

The Right: "You are poor because you are not working hard enough!"

Oh, how do I hate both.
>There's other games with imperfect information and random elements

Any recommendations?
A great milestone, but it just highlights how bizarre it is that Microsoft are still supporting IE11 in other OS versions, including Windows Server 2022:

> The IE11 desktop application will continue to be supported as part of the Windows 7 ESU until the operating system's end of support date of January 10, 2023.

> In-market Windows 10 LTSC and Windows Server are out of scope (unaffected) for this change. Windows Server 2022 and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 are also out of scope.
I can't see why Occam's razor wouldn't apply: don't postulate more entities than are necessary to explain the facts. Specifically, there is no reason to postulate some kind of anti-Firefox elements within Cloudflare when it's simply explainable as a mistake.

(There's a reason Hanlon's razor was given that name, I'm pretty sure, and that's because it's not too dissimilar from – essentially it's a much-more-situation-specific subset or variant of – Occam's razor. But I don't think "attribute to stupidity" was what the parent comment was suggesting.)
"we were offline by default...you had your experience in the real world and went online to talk about them" that is strong and so true.
Siag Office – A Free Office Package for Unix (2006)
Would that stop you from downloading and using it?
Telegram has made some impressive strides over the past few years (it's quite mainstream as a messaging platform and social platform in some countries)

I don't think I'd say the same for Signal though.
You lost me at reality distortion field honestly.
A lot of thought goes into making it possible for drivers to drive as fast as possible at all times and ignore most traffic laws.

If drivers aren't stopping for pedestrians at a place where pedestrians are legally allowed to cross (in most countries, the presence of a marked crosswalk does not affect this), then the solution should be to get the drivers to stop, not to stop people from crossing.
Those arguments can also be made for PoS.
As someone who has played international checkers (the 10x10 board), chess, go and bridge (although only chess and bridge in a club) I can concur.
Bridge has the analytical dimension (at least with duplicate bridge), and compared to e.g. Klaverjassen or Belotte, the rules are very simple. (There is some complexity in the bidding part of bridge, but bidding can be postponed in the initial stages when learning the game)

Just as the rules for international checkers are easier then the rules of chess, it is much more difficult to play very well.
(While in e.g. chess you have much usage of heuristics like a rook is better then a knight, these simple heuristics do not work as well in international checkers).

As bridge also had the psychological dimension (trying to trick your opponent by faking a finesse), I agree it teaches life lessons that can help you further down the road.

(Furthermore: while chess is often a game of two - the classical variant is two players playing one game in the evening on the chess club, hardly talking at all - bridge is a more social game. Personal bonus for me: chess means either success of failure, while with bridge you can play e.g. 28 games in one evening, and go away with those 3 beautiful hands you played while forgetting the 5 times you blundered).

The only game I find more elegant is Go, but I find the time necessary to play a single game to long (and in the Western world there are not that many simple to find opponents).
> Stalinist

Chomsky is literally an anarchist who opposes the existence of all states.
Isn’t that due to regulation? Surely we can also apply some rules to payment processors that use a decentralized network under the hood and get the best of all worlds?

Visa’s operating margins are insane. I think we can do better than a global oligopoly skimming %ages of every transaction.
> \f\relax{x}

I know it's not your point, and the design choice is KaTeX's, not yours, but making a macro that has to be invoked as `\f\relax{x}` to substitute for `f(x)` is … kind of crazy.

(Of course, in regular TeX, at least, you could do `\f\relax x`, saving one token at the expense of looking even less like a function invocation.)
I'm not sure. The intent seemed clear without the capitalization. (Though I've been a FreeBSD user for over 25 years.)
I love the screenshots of windows ME!
Many people don’t understand how card networks work. Generally there are many parties involved in a payment. There is an issuer (usually a bank), acquirer bank, the visa network itself, the payment processor company, etc.

If peering between any of these entities is interrupted, there are sometimes “stand in authorization” that allows the card to continue to work, or people may assume the visa network itself is at fault even if it is not the issue per se.

It’s possible (even likely) that a retailers payment processor is having issues in certain scenarios and the retailer just issues a blanket statement “visa is down” which is actually a misnomer.
No, you missed the point. There is no divide between "those using an exchange" and "those using their own wallet". No one is forced to exclusively use one or other.

The divide is along the line of "how much of each individual's portfolio is on a CEX?". I can have 10% of my crypto holdings (for occasional trading or on/off ramping) on an exchange and the rest on my own wallet (for DeFI).

You can not do that on a bank. If you think a bank is in trouble, you can only move your funds to another bank. If one exchange starts acting up, its users will learn how to move more to their own wallet. It is not a random example: go to /r/loopringorg and see all the screenshots of the people who finally learn how to use the Loopring protocol/wallet and taking their holdings from Coinbase. Now imagine if there were rumors that an exchange would start unilaterally trying to control what users could do? They would lose their customers. They are centralized, but the balance of power is in favor of the us users because we have options.
I think top-down and bottom-up organizing styles create essentially two different, but similar, versions of this particular failure mode.

In top-down there's always the risk of someone coming in and making a long string of bad decisions and essentially wrecking everything by leading everyone on a wild goose chase, while in bottom up the risk is someone obstructing good things happening by either being a drag or exercising whatever veto or FUD power they have (whether designed or organic) to prevent action. This looks less dramatic as it's happening but stagnation is just as powerful a force as havoc in the long run.

There's a really tricky balance to strike somewhere in there.
I am neither an economist nor an english speaker. This is my uneducated view
> Is there an alternative?

Yes, make the markets competitive.
Looks like Paymentech's (Chase) payment processing may be down.

PARTIAL OUTAGE
OCCURRED DATE : 2022-05-21 10:35:00 PST
We are aware of an issue that is currently affecting transaction processing intermittently on the Paymentech processor. We are working to identify the issue as quickly as possible and have received confirmation from Paymentech that they are experiencing issues and are actively investigating, however they are unable to provide an ETA on resolution at this time.

We will continue to monitor this issue and work with Paymentech until we have a confirmed resolution in place.

Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact support at: https://support.authorize.net/

https://status.authorize.net/#/dashboard
How? It's direct from wallet to wallet
Traffic engineers consistently prioritize traffic flow above all else. Civil disobedience is one of the few tools pedestrians have to fight back.
Tesla is building one of the world’s largest Superchargers in the Mojave Desert
This is very long but it goes into a well thought-out theory for why and how this happened.

Very interesting stuff. Well worth a watch.

https://youtu.be/1gEz__sMVaY
An opportunity presents itsself.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost#Relationship_to_...
Github uses something called View Component to render 'partials' (aka components) which is a bit more sophisticated than just Turbolinks and IMO the future of complex web apps

https://viewcomponent.org/

It's the right balance in-between React/SSR hydration and Railsy server-side apps, taking the best of both worlds.

This is a really good talk about how we got here from Jquery->Backbone.js->SPAs + React/Vue->Stimulus/ViewComponent/ActionCable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIxvxp7E0xg

There's another similar project called AnyCable which combines websockets with an ActionCable style approach:

https://anycable.io/
I know of Windings: "an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is a legal business structure that utilizes shares ... ESOP shares are only available to employees of the company"

https://windings.com/about-us/employee-owned/

> In 1998, as part of Ryberg’s retirement strategy, Windings Inc. formed an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) for a planned purchase and transition of Company stock to the Windings employees. Ryberg retired in 2006, and by 2008 the company became 100-percent employee-owned.

https://windings.com/about-us/history/

They make "custom electric motors, generators, and related components".

Would they go on the list?
Stricter defaults are valuable so long as you can disable them. I compile with -Wall and -Wextra and persistently find modern third party libraries that fail those checks. If you care about code quality your public library code should be held to a high standard and build without throwing warnings with less permissive compiler settings.
If you used autocorrect/autocomplete instead of a basic spell checker, it'd be a proper compressor. Autocorrect picks the most likely word, so words fitting prediction can be encoded using shorter "symbols", and uncommon words have to get longer "symbols". Proper compression algorithms with entropy coding work like that, except at the level of bits and bytes.
I think most of Bridge's barrier to entry is perception. Before I learned the basics and started playing with friends and family I had the understanding it was extremely complex, on the order of playing a new instrument. This turned out to not be the case and anyone with a basic grasp of cards, probability, and betting can figure it out.

There is also the social perception that is a game older people play, specifically older women. Without fail when I suggest a game or someone to learn it they reference "Its what my grandma plays". This is driven more by just how popular cards used to be, bridge one of the most popular. Something on the order of 3 of 4 were in a regular card playing group mid century I remember reading. As that population retained the habit the average age of bridge player is now in their 70s whereas it used to be much lower.
> It's an huge leap to go from world foreign politics to "control".

Oh okay, it's just a coincidence that almost always get what they want and when they don't there's just coincidentally disaster.
Author of original article (teach your kids poker, not chess) here - funny, it was seeing this rebuttal on the front page that made me realize there was a thread on mine! (linked in other comment here or in the article)

One critique of this article is that bridge is most definitely a "luck" game as this article classifies it - any card game is nondeterministic, or stochastic. Also this author's use of symmetric and asymmetric is very different then my use.

If you read my article to its conclusion, I believe both chess and poker (and bridge) offer tremendous value and encourage kids to play whatever - the main is that the nature of these lessons are tremendously different.
Also there is github cli for checking out PR

$ gh pr checkout {<number> | <url> | <branch>}
We were taught date structures by a Unix fundamentalist, entirely with C and makefiles. He absolutely despised "Micro$hit", and emails containing any format other than text/plain, but helpfully offered that he could receive email sent from emacs. We worked with some kind of perl-based VCS that I forget the details of.

You're saying students are no longer taught all this??

Levity aside, I do have rosy memories of that course (taken around 2009). It taught me well, though I can see how it probably put a lot of people off, maybe even causing them to abandon programming.
Over a half dozen of those tweets are just parroting this HN post. Perhaps VISA is down, perhaps it isn't, but there's a lot of noise in the signal.
Compact Objects in Python
Had trouble with Visa today in Norway, but seems very strange that it should be related to something in the US.
There is a free version of WordPerfect for Linux.

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/80768.html
Depending on, for lack of a better word, class people did dress up more in general. My father didn't have a tie on at home. But we did dress up way more than today when we went out--and especially if we were traveling by air or going to a restaurant.

In business, I was just joking the other week that, in the course of my career, we've gone from business suits being the expected attire at industry events to jeans with T-shirts at least being perfectly acceptable.
True, but then we‘re no longer talking about Bitcoin.

The settlement layer is rarely the most interesting part of a retail payment system.
JCRSAJTGSJEYEXYKKZZSHVUOCTRFRCRPFVYPLKPPLGRHVVBBTBRSXSWXGGTYTVKQNGSCHVGF

This is of course a very short message, and almost certainly "broken" in some sense, e.g. perhaps part of it is missing or the operator mistakenly changed something part way through. It was sent towards the end of the war, the U-boat which sent it is being chased at the time and will be sunk before Germany surrenders a few days later.

Dice-rolling seems unlikely as humans think repetitions like "KKZZ" or "VVBB" seen in this message are "wrong" and "don't look random enough" which is why you can't let humans do this work. Also the radio operators probably have better things to do than risk getting executed for wasting resources on such games at a point where Germany has definitely lost the war.

On the other hand, screw-ups due to being stressed by people trying to kill you in a war you're probably aware you've lost already are very likely. I'd be a complete wreck if I was that operator.
yes scrolling is not as smooth as it should
'One of the guild-like rules that often exists limitations in the types of organisation types lawyers can form.'

This makes little sence - How would the limitation that you are talking about even work?

The person at the top is not required to be a lawyer in the first place. There are plenty of corporate layers that work for public or private shareholder-held companies.