skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems to be correct.

https://www.hetzner.com/presse-berichte/2016/01/156818

> Hetzner Online GmbH, the first major Central European provider of data center services to construct a new data center park in Finland, is also a user and co-investor in the Cinia CLion1 cable connection.
There's a lot of low hanging fruit out there, you just have to recognize it or be lucky enough to stumble facefirst into it.

I recently joined a budding open-source project (PhobGCC, a custom gamecube controller), saw that it was using a rather overbuilt full kalman filter, and within 2 days of work rewrote it into a less generalized filter that ran 7x faster (later improved even further) and performed even better at its filtering task.

It was super basic work, despite it having been almost a decade since I last studied control systems, but it made a really big difference for the project.
Healthchecks runs a loop of

10 send any due notifications

20 SLEEP 2

30 GOTO 10

The actual loop [1] is of course a little more complicated, and is being run concurrently on several machines.

[1] https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/blob/09a99d3e9c...
Sadly this remind me of the golden phrase

> if you are not paying for the product then you are the product

I have switched to Kagi [0] a paid search engine (free in beta) as my default search engine and so far it has been working out great.

[0] https://www.kagi.com
"Privacy" focused users are the most monolithic demographic and the easiest to target in the history of all demographics.

It's just as easy as selling bunker-beds and ammo for doomer-preppers (while stroking their ego).

But, shhh don't tell them and hurt their ego
I am assuming a functioning market for farmland. As I have observed over several decades, and my father and grandfather observed for much longer, the market for farmland is brutally efficient. (Insufficiently-regulated monopsonies arrange society so that their inputs are as cheap as possible.) Lots of rural land lies fallow, and much of that has ruined some poor farmer who tried to grow or graze ground that wouldn't pay him back. My point is just that while we can draw that conclusion about empty fallow ground, we can't draw it about ground that currently sees more remunerative use than farming.

I don't think we can really know anything for sure about point 2 for hypothetical internet discussion agricultural ground. It is probably true that some land has been so damaged, but it is also possible for farmer B to have better results than farmer A on the same land. This is possible even if they are in some sense equally skilled and capitalized. It doesn't rain the same every year...
are speeds of bleeding edge mem devices getting close to RAM?
One of the harder things with XMPP is that it is a badly-formed document up until the connection is closed. You need a SAX-style/event-based parser to handle it. That makes rolling your own understandable in some cases (e.g. dotnet's System.Xml couldn't do this prior to XLinq).

That being said, as you indicated Gloox is C-based, and the reference implementation of SAX is in C. There is no excuse.
>Is it that anal sex isn't as likely between men and women and therefore the risk is lower?

yes and it is common for gays to have sex with way more partners, way more frequently, without protection, often using drugs. so it's a wonderful way to spread disease. look up the epidemiology of STDs in relation to MSM partner counts, it's eye-opening.

amazes me that people don't actually know the basic facts of this. i suppose this is what happens after two decades of politely not mentioning it -- what goes unsaid eventually goes unthought.
sorry im trying to figure out the jargon here. you bought a mechanical keyboard and then replaces the keys (ABS with PBT) ? is there anything that has this off-the-shelf ?
The by the book business isn't hiring young people and teaching them how to drive heavy equipment. If their employees felt exploited they'd have problems retaining them.

I think their employees care more about the perks and the fairly laid back work environment than they care about all the fire extinguishers on the property having an up to date tag. I know I did back when I worked those kinds of jobs.
The cohorts are huge (120,000+ people) and they controlled for a number of other factors in the analysis, so I don't think sample error is here to blame for why they observed high-pesticide fruits/veggies having less health benefits than low-pesticide fruits/veggies.
Yeah, I asked it because if that was the reason then it seems fixable.
>the only way Tether is not stable is if the people behind it have been wildly profligate

This is exactly the case and exactly what most people believe has happened. It's a minor miracle that usdt hasn't evaporated already, it's a matter of time.
Also Dreamworld.
It was not true in Europe either. You could of course use any device, and in many countries bundling a device with a phone contract was even expressly forbidden. Carriers had no control at all.

Insert the usual disclaimer that Europe has a lot of countries with different legislation, but the carrier stranglehold was a US specific problem.
https://twitter.com/flydotio/status/1529117954931101700
My first smartphone was a Nokia running Symbian.
The “very old” browsers seem to include the very latest version of WebKitGTK-based GNOME Web aka Epiphany. (It does have legitimate conformance problems, admittedly, so I don’t know if this is one of them.)
few things:

- there is a big bezel that is occupied by CAT logo

- impossible to type

- most smartphones are already quite durable, so it really isn't a killer feature.

- im confused as to who would use this. somebody working on an oil rig will likely appreciate more screen estate, ability to pinch zoom, type, etc.
No one cares, fix Windows 11.
you'll be amazed at their mod scene then
Every time I use any of these apps, there is always a nagging sense of instability. I don’t want to base my business transactions that relies on a 3rd party Shopify app that fulfills orders over a fragile API, run by one dude hanging out on the beaches of Bali.

Some of these may be very stable but this is always on the back of my mind: “Is this going to work in 5 years?”

If you ever want to witness horror, jump over to Shopify forums: Zapier integrations gone wrong, unresponsive APIs, App owners not responding, businesses adding free integration apps that were last updated during the Obama administration, etc.

While Stripe API and their core services are stable, none of this inspires confidence.
Happy to see more mechanical keyboards with a low profile. I dont understand how enthusiasts use the typical wrist-bending tall keyboards all day long.
The US was very much involved in the Ukrainian coup/revolution of 2014, and Putin invaded Crimea immediately after that coup in response. Stating those facts shouldn't necessarily be seen as a defense of Putin or a claim that Russia is 100% in the right. But it was a very obvious response from provocations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
> Silicon Valley politicians I talked to lamented the political apathy of busy rank-and-file tech workers who live in a bubble. (The Musks and Thiels are a different story.) “They don’t get involved,” a public official told me. “They don’t vote. They don’t know their local representatives.”

It's terrible, they are just like everyone else. No one knows their local reps, local elections have terrible turnout, and are conducted in almost a total information blackout.
If Framework works out as intended, my chassis can outlive the ports I chose (2x USBC, HDMI, USB3A) when I ordered it.

(And that's not even that far-fetched, perhaps most obviously/soonest USBC being prevalent enough to obsolete type-A and HDMI for me.)

But that's quite a minor point, critics always seem to pick on the port modules, but the main thing to me is the design for repair/upgrade. Even though I expected that, it was honestly a 'wow' to receive it and fit my components - the attention detail, like captive screws and magnets, that makes it so easy to work on.
> whenever the price of Tethers drops to $0.99, they buy tethers until the price is back up to $1.

Buy Tethers with what? If the money is in fact saved in regulated banks or other such instruments, there's nothing liquid left to defend the peg on the exchange.

Instead, the standard "backed stablecoin" approach is to make money with a small spread on redemptions/creation, while allowing others to do that hard work. Tether takes (https://tether.to/es/fees) a 0.1% spread on redemptions, so if you hand them $1mUSDT you'll get back $999k USD.

> But they should be solid as long as they have made more money on those investments than they've spent in salaries and yachts and what-not, and Tether was already huge back when BTC was below $2k.

One possible "bank run" scenario is that their backing is in fact stable, but it is illiquid. Suppose Tether invested part of its reserve in long-term loans to another company (like Binance). If Tether ever faces a crisis of confidence, it would face large-scale redemption requests, but it may be unable to call in its loans to fund those requests. That would leave Tether unable to redeem its currency, and a public suspension of redemptions would drive a further exodus.

In theory, every single USDT in circulation could be redeemed at a moment's notice. Unwinding some $73 billion in investments would be a Herculean feat even if everything is fully legitimate.
I think the approach makes a lot of sense. In the past I’ve been using Matlab and Mathematica to solve robotics / trajectories problems symbolically and then generate code from the solutions, as big fat inlined functions.

Having a toolbox based on modern open source and widely adopted tools like Sympy to do this automatically is super powerful.
One benefit of membrane keyboards is that the membrane would prevent liquids from reaching down into the sensor components.

That being said, I've resurrected my WASD Code keyboard a few times from coffee and water spills. It can be taken apart and cleaned with rubbing alcohol, left to dry, and reassembled pretty easily. I usually do this anyway every 18-24 months at this point for sanitary reasons.
Is Logitech even a good value buy these days? Feels like they are just pumping out the most generic chinese-made crap with their logo/brand and riding their old reputation rather than doing anything innovative.

This keyboard is a prime example.

Too late. (Mechanical keyboard hype started 10-12 years ago)

Too expensive. (My first mechanical KB was $30. Yes, that's right. If I didn't spill stuff on it, it would still be working. Still hard to justify paying more than $100 for a single peripheral).

Too Meh. (styling looks pretty generic and not really unique enough to tickle the novelty factor for the enthusiasts.)

Seriously though, I can't name a single reason this is better than any other mechanical KB in the market.
Walmart still have a lot of (combined) efficiencies otherwise, people would jusy shop at the local grocer if that was cheaper :)

Unlike the government, no one's forcing people to shop at walmart, and if they were loosing efficiency (charging higher due to Admin costs) people are more than welcome to move to any alternative that suits them best
You're assuming they're actually receiving the dollars for the tethers they mint which they have chose not to prove.
"any more than the life of the reader of a novel becomes a derived work of its story."

I fear that is only a limitation of our current tech, rather than a bedrock foundation of our law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E (see around 2:00, though the whole video is necessary for context)
Linked to in the Twitter thread was this site which I've never heard of, but is very interesting:

https://privacytests.org
I should have been more clear, that one was allowed in the US, but some of the things that are allowable in the EU aren't necessarily super safe. Generally speaking really effective natural pesticides were dangerous for humans.
Maple Seeds Inspire Efficient Spinning Microdrone
No, functional languages also have generics. It is a type system feature, not related to OOP.

Maybe the best example of a language without generics is C. In short there are 3 solutions to counter the lack of generics: copy-paste the same code multiple times with minor changes, make this copy-paste automatic with macros, or circumvent the problem by further abstraction.

Let’s say you want to create a vector data structure that can grow. It is not a hard thing if you know the size of each element, so you can trivially write it for, say, ints. Now you want to reuse your logic for your custom structs that have a different size - the only change you would have to do is replace the element_size constant and repeat the whole thing with a different name (first solution). You might try to write some ugly hack with C’s pre-processor macro to generate this thing for you by an easier to use wrapper, or you could just implement a wrapper that has a next, prev pointer and use a linked list structure (with very bad performance compared to storing the elements next to each other in an array). C code often uses the third option due to the inconvenience of the first 2, which would be solved by generics.
Great. I'll have to check that out the next time I go to my DMV. I look forward to seeing these improvements after such a long and consistent track record of dreadful experience.
Sincere apologies. I did not reply to this thread for business development purposes, since our customers run stadiums, arenas, campuses, facilities, etc. Would it have been more proper for me to not answer the question?
Also, Brian May built his own guitar, which is rather punk, if you’d ask me.
He was appointed by a Nokia board looking to sell the business to MS. He was a patsy. Most of the bad decision making happened before Elop. And they appointed him to finish the job. The fault lies with the Nokia management and the board, including their former CEO, Jorma Ollila.
There is an assumption behind your question to the effect of saying "If we assume Tether is not, ultimately, a fraud, it seems like the only way..."

That is, IMHO, a questionable assumption.

Now, "fraud" in this case too strong a term. The intent to defraud may not be explicit in Tether's internal conversations and practices.

All business ventures by definition involve risk, and corporate structures and venues and liability shields and so forth exist precisely to create a space for risky ventures to be undertaken without failure leading to death or personal poverty for the principals. In those cases, the customers, investors, and other participants are also partaking in the risk, based on information that is deliberately- sometimes responsibly, sometimes incidentally, and sometimes maliciously- incomplete.

At the end of the day, when the full accounting is known, a post facto judgement of fraud vs speculation may be rendered.

But the assumption that Tether is behaving as one might want one's bank to be behaving, in terms of customer/user risk exposure, should be strongly, strongly questioned.
I was rather disappointed in Lohr (author of this piece) as he is smart and was around in the 1990s for Solow’s famous quip “We see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics”.

In the age of the desktop computer the iPhone would have been a flop (especially in the US’s then-backwards wireless environment). It takes time for people to understand a new capability and for it to reach the point where it’s worth ditching current practice. My aging parents still like to have a meeting (with their lawyer for example) that could have been a phone call or even email; they still visit the bank in person etc. I can’t be bothered with any of that.

The call center makes a good example: I have seen a company that uses machine learning to make the outbound call: it can wait patiently on hold and even do some transactions with the human in the call center. Things like that don’t show up in the stats yet; the real change will be replacing most of the call center ppl with an API, and with the humans there to handle the really hard problems.
Well the amount of node processes spawned by VS has also grown exponentially with every new version.
It's a common joke on r/fountainpens. I think there's a subreddit covering fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and, if my memory serves me, headphones.
Video shows letter input from the keypad.

https://youtu.be/GVzuT6eYZUA?t=107
145 funding rounds
UnitedStates - 37 funding rounds
Israel - 3 funding rounds
UnitedKingdom - 6 funding rounds
Venture Capital funds that invested in startups:
CD&R, Antin Infrastructure Partners, Ventech, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Fuel Ventures, Thoma Bravo, Andreessen Horowitz
https://medium.com/@parsers/parsers-vc-funding-news-weekly-o...
Could youtube-dlp and YouTube Vanced now be hosted on.. YouTube?

I wonder how long it'd take for Google to crack down on the system abuse.

Is it really abuse if the videos are viewable / playable? Presumably the ToS either already forbids covert channel encoding or soon will.
True, that's what I mean with depending too much on the optimizer (in a sibling comment). But IME the threshold for inlining code is surprisingly big (which of course also has a downside: potential code bloat).

I added a little fix which prevents the compiler from discarding the result completely (just by going through __builtin_printf()):

https://godbolt.org/z/W93WrhbaE

PS: another minor tweak (make the comparison function static, so that no extra copy is included in the compiler output):

https://godbolt.org/z/5TTM4x193
Invalidation of Lived Experience is also what we do, and should do, to Targeted Individuals [0], people who boast of having diseases cured by crank medicine, and con game victims certain that they're beloved by overseas supermodels. Skepticism is a rational and healthy habit.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/mind-games-the-tortured-lives-of...
I would hope HN would be more immune to this general online phenomenon, but these sorts of articles get ranked highly often enough that it seems like a majority of users rush to vote and opine without taking the time to read.
I love Tilt! Been using it for over a year and can’t imagine life without it at this point. Congratulations to the Tilt team. Seems like a good partnership.
Bitcoin is far easier to monitor than cash, so that doesn't hold water. And Monero may be great for avoiding oversight, but it's barely used by anybody.

I think as usual government just wants another thing to tax and control.
> If the syntax requires special tooling to make it usable, isn't that a sign that the syntax is hard?

Not in this case. Lisp syntax is easy, people lack familiarity.

The only "hard" part is checking that the number of parens are right. But it's not that other programming languages don't have equivalent "hard" problems, like closing the right kind and amount of brackets on C, of whitespace problems in python.
I love lisp but there is the practical problem of paren juggling. You either need to come up with and execute by hand a line-break-and-indent system on the spot, or use tooling to manage them.

It's not a huge hurdle and other languages have equivalent problems. But the lisp one is particularly ill-suited to other tools, even visual techniques like manually aligning indents.

I've taught programming to beginners, including lisps, and it's definitely one of the early disorientations even without prior expectations about code. You don't need much: I eventually settled on just giving them sublime with rainbow parens and telling them to hit enter a lot. But you need something and it's not obvious what's missing unless someone points you in the right direction.
> Are there many people who believe Lisp syntax is as easy as Python?

Even with python I find myself getting bogged down by missing a parenthesis here and there around function calls, but perhaps that problem is unique to me and my attention and memory issues. Syntax highlighting in editors is great, and certainly it helps me, but I wish for them to be even more interactive and assertive: it should mark fields with obvious errors like unclosed quotes and parentheses, I shouldn't have to wait after compile or run-time to be informed of these errors.

Aid that reduce syntax errors should always be welcome. Moreover, some of us have high working memory and some don't so I welcome opinionated tools like Spyder IDE and Jupyter that are hands-on in the dev stage, and serve to encourage a fun and exploratory dev environment.
the motors in current model starlink terminals are not the robust type that would be used for constant-motion tracking 24x7x365 (as you see with an o3b terminal for MEO), they're motors that are intended to be used rarely in a fixed mount application where it aligns the panel at a certain heading one or two times a day, maximum, and stays that way.
Search for “regenerative agriculture” and “permaculture“. It’s not necessarily something we “lost”. While some ancient farming techniques can be regenerative, exploitative practices have been part of agriculture since its inception. In its modern form, industrialized agriculture is essentially strip mining.
seems like a lot of YC IPO companies are struggling to keep their share prices afloat and this seems like something to send more paying customers to its network of YC backed businesses.

ex) Docusign is down by at least 80%
Author here. For what it's worth, I (mostly) think you're right! IMO heroics were a huge problem at that company, and are a huge problem at the company I work at now too. The gruntwork is really really important.

I tried to get at this in the last section, that it's not about going out trying to be a hero, and it's unfortunate it didn't get across. That was my point that you shouldn't go look for company priorities to fix, to be a hero. Just look around you, see what's going on, and do good shit. Sometimes yeah that does involve heroics, sometimes it's just gruntwork.

I don't want to go back and edit the essay now but I think it could be much clearer indeed!

> Imagine the same story but somebody two months earlier had voiced a concern that Jabberwocky and ChaChing wouldn't play well together. Pushing for the APIs to be harmonized so that they could play together and integrate. [...]

Disagree here, though it's maybe not obvious from the bits of the story I told why. ChaChing was one of... maybe three or four dozen experiments like it. All of the others failed. There was no reason to believe ChaChing would be any different, and if it did work, even the best-case expectations were well below what it ended up doing. It really was a lightning strike. So it would have been a huge waste of time to do all of that work, delaying Jabberwocky, for a bunch of things which never ended up shipping.
Can they somehow tell exactly where the cable was cut?
All part of the mix. But definitely some blockchain thing underneath to tie it all together. Stephenson was writing about crypto currencies as early as the nineties. Around the time he also coined the term Metaverse.
Like what? I use scrivener because it’s been helpful for organizing research and doing outlines. It’s a beast of a program though - much to learn - so made an effort to find something better/easier. OneNote/EverNote didn’t cut it, but always interested in more intuitive alternatives in this space.
And I'd have to get it on Google Play.
The Apple keyboards in my experience are pretty nice. I often use it as it is easier on my fingers and causes less joint pain.
Elon Musk Lawyers Up with Tesla Autopilot Among Washington's Targets
People have different preferences: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/37pw1s...

That said (author here), I actually use a 65% for daily use. The 40% was too small for me to use comfortably. I could get used to the caps lock for arrow keys and text editing stuff, but having to remember shortcuts to type a semicolon just wasn't for me.
Nokia hasn't been making phones for a long time. They license the name for HMD Global and the modern devices have nothing to do with Nokia itself.