skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has long been one of the top 5 issues with bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a whole.

the gene pool is too shallow. It makes them too brittle and way too susceptible to co-ordinated abuse.
What kind of taco do you picture when you think of a hard-shelled taco?

I picture American tacos (which are not good tacos, though I wouldn’t say I “disdain” them per se).
seems to have a whole lot more results, for one
Or you could just lick it before closing it.
Does Docker run as well on the BSDs as it does on Linux? and those Docker-ecosystem tools like the ones that scan your docker images for size optimizations?

The infra my projects work on are all heavily based on docker so that’s a hard requirement.
The idea that Netflix is failing because of identity politics is just ridiculous and doesn’t hold up to even the slightest examination. It’s just another reactionary talking point that feels right enough for people to not examine it.
Louis Sachar's "The Card Turner" is a lovely novel about tournament bridge. Highly recommended.
Your “so-called serious people” swipe doesn’t exactly convey that you are making a good faith effort to understand these proposals…

Also, there no reason a middle class investor would have to sell all their stock to pay taxes. If the value of your portfolio doubled, you’d only have to sell between 7.5% and 10% of your holdings to cover the taxes (at the current capital gains tax rates).
I mean I don’t know about screwed it up. You can’t expect any artist to just consistently produce pure hits. The creativity seems to come and go, the zeitgeist and the cultural context matter so much. Nobody (except, I would argue, Marvel) is able to be really consistent with their art. They were always doomed to fail producing their own content.
No, not at all! It would be a far better world if NASA (not to mention any number of other institutions) had to be more forthright and contrite about its baleful roots.
Machine tags aren't tags at all. Not all metadata is tagging.
The worlds full of hypocritical morons. There was a guy on my team who would promote random blog post driven ideas, but never implement the codebase. So the codebase he led was a dumpster fire, but he had enough clout that our director turned a blind eye. It would have been laughable, until our applications merged and we all had to play in the same trash pile. Everyone worth their salt left the company, so mission accomplished I guess.
> The JavaScript Detections (JSD) engine identifies headless browsers and other malicious fingerprints.

Blocking JS is not malicious.
Materialism is provably false.

Numbers are things that are real. In fact they are so real that life as we know it can't exist without hundreds of them being so precise. It doesn't matter whether you subscribe to multiverse theory or not the fact remains that they are immaterial.

QED: Materialism is false. There are non-physical things in this universe. I know you don't want to hear that but it is true.
Both true! I wonder if you could have one without the other?

(Serious question.)
OP, please get a spellchecker.
> the "ethnographic evidence", which I accept you're not defending, largely features indigenous peoples during an active genocide.

Incorrect. Plenty of hunter gatherer societies are highly isolated and are not experiencing active genocide or displacement. Even ignoring those outliers that are in such a situation, they still exhibit rates of violence many times greater than modern societies.

> - the archaeological evidence is, naturally and obviously, extremely few and far between. Much of it doesn't relate to hunter-gatherers at all. As for the rest? Taking one at random: the 12% violent death share at Ile Téviec. Read the sources and this is extrapolated from three (3!) bodies. Two of which were apparently not violent deaths after all. The remaining body? We have no clue if the incoming arrowhead was from warfare or a hunting accident. How unfortunate if a single 6,000 year old hunting accident is labeling entire peoples violent and uncivilized. Either way, it's nonsense all the way down.

Correct, no sane anthropologists would use a single sample to draw conclusions. But there are many such sites and estimates are drawn across a wider body of samples.

> What little we do know is that rates of violence amongst different hunter-gatherer peoples today, despite them all being under immense outside pressures, are extremely variable... as it is between all other different groups of humans

For the third time, no, this is incorrect. Rates of violence among hunter gatherers, even among those highly isolated from other societies, is much greater than modern societies. You're probably reading sources that claim that few death occur due to war. But that's because the authors of these papers just categorize the motivation for killing as something else, like revenge. The rate of death is usually in the 10-15% range.
We did suggest tags as the intersection of "tags used by others for this url" and "tags you have used in the past" to increase cohesiveness.
I might get RSI at work but it's very unlikely that I'll cut my fingers off in a mousing accident.
I don’t like using them, but, sometimes, they are required.

That pretty much sums up all kinds of “smelly” practices.

In my experience, “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it” type pronouncements end up looking fairly silly. We do what needs doing, to achieve our ends.

At least, that’s what most experienced ship programmers do.

What I prefer (I program in Swift), are computed properties that examine the current state, and synthesize a report on demand.

Can’t always do that, though. Things like performance and threading can be factors. I just ran into something like that, tonight. Not sure how I’ll solve it. I’ll sleep on it.
Trojitá – fast Qt IMAP email client
No that’s not really a code smell for me. It’s really normal for data types not to prohibit illegal states, and that isn’t an issue specific to having multiple Boolean flags. It’s something that a more powerful type system can help solve though (specifically, discriminated union types do this).
it gets better mate. I have two, (14 and 12).

We raised them both almost completely on our own... having no parents nearby to assist and we're both fiercely independent anyway. your 9 month old will get easier to manage and the 2nd (if you have a 2nd) will be a smoother/flatter difficulty curve.
> over Netflix's depreciation models

Amortization - Netflix treats content as assets, and recognizes on average 90% of amortized expenses in the four years after first broadcast. Net revenue looks better, but cash flow and balance sheets are still going to reflect outlays, which can often occur before first broadcast.

The "Hollywood accounting" recognizes 90% of expenses in the first year to artificially reduce net profit, which in turn means less taxes and royalties during the year when most revenue for content is recognized. Netflix can make a case that content continues to make an impact on subscription revenue over a larger window of time, and so expenses should equally be recognized in relation to the income statement.

Netflix also regularly updates their amortization schedule as trends shift.
lol yeah.. the might in that sentence is pretty funny.
Closed cycle gas turbines still need heat exchangers (at least two).

One very interesting grid energy storage concept (currently being commercially developed by Babcock & Wilcox) involves heating sand using electric resistance heating to about 1200 C, storing then using that heat to drive a gas turbine (round trip efficiency > 50%). I mention this because you can transfer heat from sand to compressed air in a very compact and cheap device that mixes the two, then separates the air with cyclone separators.

(This concept would likely also need something to destroy thermal NOx in that air, though.)

Nuclear is going to have to compete with heat from cheap renewables stored in sand, then turned back to power using a machine like this with only the one really cheap heat exchanger.
Right. Let's let the pharma and medical establishment continue to "innovate" on our behalf.
The system needs voltage
> It was government actions related to covid which wreaked havoc on supply chains.

A million dead in the US was always going to wreck havoc, not even counting the people in hospital. For all we know it would have been much worse without government action.

> And endless wars are also government actions.

That is not very helpful. Countries in the Middle East dependent on grain from Ukraine had absolutely no way of avoiding the war, and yet will bear the consequences. From their point of view, it is an uncontrollable calamity just like COVID.
Maybe go work for Etsy? Dogfood your own product.
you can use /usr/bin/tsort to sort a list of things in a makefile-esque hierarchy
State Farm?
Yes. Computers in general are training us to be algorithmic cogs.
Agreed. Every once in a while I read a comment on here that makes me wish I could read a whole book in its style.
To vaguely respond with an analogy, when I don't care what I'm drinking I don't drink Budweiser, I drink water.

It's good to not be insufferable in constantly policing oneself to follow the trend. sure. But watching Marvel movies isn't the only alternative.
In a time where energy technologies are changing rapidly, patience is not a virtue. Investments had damned well better pay off quickly.
When somebody tells you about code smell, ask them to describe the smell. If they can describe it, then you can weigh the merit of their arguments. If 'describe the smell' stumps them, brush their remark aside until they can come back with something more substantial.
Sure - I was just saying my problems with the current implementation. I'm not even against civil forfeiture as a premise - merely how it is implemented now, where one needs to prove something that may be impossible.

Imagine if you take $25/week out of your paycheck and put it under your mattress. 10 years later you take that money and go to buy a truck, but you're pulled over and the cops take all of your money.

How exactly can you prove the money is legitimately yours? If the burden of proof was put on the accuser(cops), then they would need to show that you're a drug dealer or something, not just some guy who learned financial habits from a member of the old school of savings.
> AFAIK that's not actually theirs but: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

Check out https://api.github.com/users/defunkt:

> "id": 2

pjax was written by a GitHub founder for use in github.com.
The issue is that the NRC requires this process even for subsequent versions of the same design. That's just nonsense, if it's a copy of an approved design this process is unnecessary.
I remember reading about it in a book called "More Future Stuff" from 1991. Even the Amazon blurb mentions it:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0140145230/ref=dbs_a_def_rw...

"...edible food tape (to hold together those messy meals like burritos)..."
Same for Laravel, although it hasn't grown as much as Rails, the amount of batteries included is amazing. There's very little I've had to reinvent, unlike my Node JS projects, where there's too much time wasted in finding and learning 3rd party packages that are outdated in a year or two.
Why do you need Rust?
I work in a company that's all in with serverless on AWS, but unlike you I can't give a glowing recommendation.

The answer should always be "it depends".

IMHO the more distributed a system the more difficult it is to correctly build. Serverless architectures encourage distribution by building your service from different AWS components, commonly say, Lambdas, S3, DDB, SQS, etc, you end up building a distributed system from AWS provided distributed systems.

System performance is commonly a function of data locality, and serverless typically spreads things out. The Lambda's have no persistent state of their own, though DDB is fastish, it's still multiple network hops away. Speaking of performance, you are also always trying to work within the 15 minute / 10 GB lambda hard limits, which has made my current role the one with the most performance management work yet!

Lastly, you require a rather high proficiency in AWS, both in general (IAM polices, roles, cloud formation, cloudwatch, et al), and in specific services - and each service is it's own thing with it's own performance traits and consistency guarantees and semantics. It takes a lot to pick it all up.

Meanwhile, single servers, being whether you rent an EC2 virtual instance, an OVH rented physical instance, or purchase one, have gotten extraordinarily powerful. And postgres has proven to be very useful.

I'm not suggesting people ignore AWS all together, but perhaps using less services could serve a lot of people rather well, 1 EC2 using Postgres RDS and EBS, can do an awful lot. I notice the M6a instances apparently max out at 192 VCPU, 768GB RAM, 50Gbps networking and 40Gbps of EBS connectivity.

Most people know how to run 1 host, everyone has 1 host they use as their work desktop, they have routers and home servers, and they get great data locality and a much easier to reason about system.

Some might allege that such a host will have less uptime compared to what someone might build with a serverless architecture. However, I believe most outages are a result of human error, be it in configuration or code, and by simplifying the system to a host, a DB and a SAN volume, one might be able to make it much more straightforward, which also helps recover from outages much quicker. (Serverless observability is no where near as good as what one gets with a process running on a Linux server you can SSH into.)

Some might say you will hit hard scaling limits, since such a design scales up rather than out. This is true, but AWS is a minefield of quotas and hard limits, and you have to design carefully around them. A Linux host will also have such limits, but AWS Serverless will be a superset, since at the end of the day AWS Serverless is running your process in a Linux firecracker VM anyway.

I don't mean to be an advocate for any part of the spectrum, just that I don't think there's any free lunch here by picking serverless. Much like picking a programming language, I think it might come down largely to what your existing skills are and your personality.
Agree but it’s worth noting that Taco Chronicles did do a very generous episode on American tacos.
The problem with the article is it assumes that Netflix's drop in stock price is due to mistakes the company has made. In my view, the reason Netflix has been less successful than shareholders expected has more to do with what its competitors are doing well rather than what its doing poorly. Netflix's CEO once famously said that Netflix had to become HBO before HBO could become Netflix. While Netflix has made steps to become a major content producer, the nature of copyright law means that they are simply starting from a disadvantage. Now that the old Hollywood juggernauts have launched their own streaming services, it's a lot harder for Netflix to grow.
All those words. I want to highlight what I think it a theme there that is relevant to the framing of today's article:

Nuclear was undergoing a series of massive technical improvement as humanity discovered an exciting new technology. Then people got scared and strangled all innovation out of the nuclear industry some time in the 70s.

Heavy regulation makes it really, really expensive to experiment with new approaches. If we'd kept pushing on with nuclear, the existing nuclear technologies would probably have been obsoleted by now and we'd be using something different, cheaper and better with much more attractive cost structures. There is no point trying to improve a technology that governments are trying to regulate out of existence.
“‘Code smells’ Considered Harmful”
I have a randomized user agent and I occasionally see sites refuse to deliver a page because they think a particular browser won't work.
> Do you know why the constitution counted slaves as 3/5 of a person?

None of that changes the fact that doing so explicitly indicates slavery to be a legal practice in the newly founded country. "You can keep black people as property, but don't worry, we fixed the impact on Congressional representation" is exactly the sort of thing that "white supremacy" describes.

> I mean, if civil forfeiture was primarily applied to blacks, you might have a case.

That's pretty easy.

https://oklahomawatch.org/2015/10/07/most-police-seizures-of...

"Nearly two thirds of seizures of cash by Oklahoma law enforcement agencies come from blacks, Hispanics and other racial or ethnic minorities, an Oklahoma Watch analysis of high-dollar forfeiture cases in 10 counties shows."

https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/taken/2019/01/27...

"Black residents have their money and property taken by police in South Carolina nearly three times more often than whites, for deep and unfair systemic reasons that go beyond the design of a civil forfeiture law, experts say."
IMO, the rights from copyright are not "natural" rights so much as a negotiated deal with the rest of society.

Ownership of physical assets derives from concepts like "scarcity" and "exclusivity". You can't have my widget because then I can't use it, and maybe, worst case, you damage it. This is more or less a universally understood risk and we have agreed as a society to build a legal system around it.

Intellectual property has no such underpinning. Once the software exists, you can't unring that bell. There's no technical reason that anyone who wants Windows XP can't have a copy; it won't wear out.

Instead of coping with a universal physical inevitability, we built copyright around a social tradeoff instead-- hacking around the natural economics of a finished product that has zero marginal cost or supply constraint. This lets rights-owners simulate scarcity and exclusivity and enables some business models-- usually the "front-loaded" model of "build the product first, the sell it later in an bulk undifferented manner". Society has accepted this tradeoff because it was considered a net positive. Hence language like the original Copyright Clause of the US Constitution-- "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts". It's not a natural right, it's a tradeoff where the rest of us expect to get something in return.

I believe this means this deal is always subject to review, alteration, or cancellation if it no longer justifies its costs. Creativity will find a way. Music will be written for as long as "I'm in the band" is a viable pick-up line, commissioned art will exist as long as someone has more fursonae than artistic talent to draw them, and software will emerge from the millions of businesses who need it to function.

Nobody's business model is sacred and guaranteed, and nobody is entitled to hold the rest of the world hostage to maintain it. Did we hold back the modern world because the steam locomotive and horse-whip manufacturers would go out of business? Why should the commercial-software industry have any more clout?
Binance.US didn't list UST until fairly recently.

Before then, Binance.US had several other "stable coins", the most popular being Binance USD and Tether. (Binance.US also has a dollar asset which is supposedly FDIC insured.)

Binance.US has trading rules that specify things like minimum and maximum price. The minimum price for Binance USD and Tether is something like $0.0001 (and the maximum price is something like $1000.0). IIRC, all of the other stable coins have similar "bounds".

UST when introduced was different. Its minimum price was $0.70 (and its maximum price was $1.30).

When things went to crap, that minimum price basically froze the market, or rather froze people into their positions. (There were people willing to buy at $0.45, for a while, then $0.17.)

FWIW, Binance.US eventually significantly reduced the minimum.
There's a lot of monastic traditions of fermentated foods; I would not be so sure.
I'm talking about an inevitable outcome of communities, being that there are going to be individuals that won't belong to any of them. In that case I'm saying that committing suicide alone is the best outcome out of a set of bad options, because at least there is no collateral damage.
Or, bury it underground in impermeable rock. Short of a meteor strike right on top of the repository, it will not make its way out to the surface.
I've been using Rust for the past years and gotten quite used its tooling, crates, etc. Using other languages like Python, JavaScript, Java feels like pain to me compared to Rust.
Carpenters get RSI all the time too - or neuralgia e.g swinging a hammer 1,000 times a day for 30 years will take a toll on your elbow.
The article was a bit "once over lightly"

Comments here are much more interesting.
Well, they did say it made the server code simpler, not server+client code.
Indeed, came here to write basically this. Solar tripping off is solar obeying the rules set on them by the utility that is "You will trip if anything so much as looks funny."

And then a few decades later, they figured out this was a terrible idea and the newer 1741-SA/CA Rule 21/etc stuff with far greater ridethrough for reasonable disturbances showed up, but I don't think it's the majority of solar installs.

I should probably get a Grid Guard code for my SMA inverters and use the revised ridethrough rules - my utility handwaved at it when I installed stuff, and it's using the CA Rule 21 stuff, but they now have far more explicit guidelines on what they want programmed in the inverters.
Haha I heard about Khan Academy but not the kids version.

Daughter is obsessed with it at the moment. She keeps asking for iPad and I only let her play for 1 hour a day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23mTSviCZo&t=46s
Sounds like an ETF traded on cryptocurrency markets instead of the stock exchange, perhaps you could call it a "CTF" (crypto-traded fund).

Would it be regulated like an ETF or mutual fund? There might even be regulations that make exchanges like Coinbase unwilling to deal with it.
So you've got dunning Kruger on one pole, and impostor syndrome opposite. How do you do better? Can you?
And we've been tripping over good information for hundreds of years.
> No effects were found of testosterone administration for strongly affiliated Democrats or strong or weak Republicans.

There are a variety of testosterone blockers. It would strengthen their case if they had the opposite political effect. As is, an effect in just one quadrant out of four smells like p-hacking.
Having a great conversation about interesting subjects with a smart knowledgeable person. Ideally while walking and drinking coffee in glorious beautiful weather. Happiness isn’t expensive.
I learned from Pivots, so maybe I write that kind of code :)
This worm, hatakemimizu in Japanese, is a very concerning threat for forests all over the world including up to boreal forests, as its original habitat covers from the extreme South of Kyushu to the extreme North of Hokkaido.
Geothermal is popular in more or less every area that has the right geology for it. It's just that those faults that being usable thermal energy close to the surface are few and far between.
The Flop That Saved Microsoft (2012)