skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If TTLs can be arbitrary lengths, wouldn't setting them to high values (a week, month, year, whatever) allow you to implement whatever manual override mechanism you wanted?
Not true. Over here in Germany I was once out working out at my usual calisthenics ground where sometimes a lot of children and parents come by as well. So some of these kids started talking to me asking random questions and stuff and I chatted back and one of their mothers came up to me like I was some pedo harrassing her little ones and screamed at me to stop talking to them. And it was in broad daylight as well, with many people around!

Sad times for men, in this regard.
I buy insurance for my car. I guess the Toyota dealership could provide a private security force to recover my car in case of theft. I wouldn’t say the current system doesn’t work, though.
I wrote an open source client-side tool that might interest people who need something like this: https://github.com/recurser/string-is
> “Well frens it happened to me,” Green tweeted

I think it's a cute way to say the word "friends" for most people. I know it has another meaning. Alt-right folks can try to co-opt it and others can co-opt it right back.
Collective farms similar to kibbutz also exist in the US. They are an option for those who prefer that lifestyle. You can even start one yourself.
Meh. My tools aren't written for other people. They can do whatever they want. But bitching about how a tool they didn't pay for that was originally written for a different purpose requires them to read something is kind of funny.

It's entirely possible there's a community of people out there who don't mind reading about abstractions exported by tools. Especially if it means you'll save time in the long run.

The original post seemed to me to be a mild introduction to the concept that maybe you can get your job done more efficiently with extensible / combinable simple tools rather than waiting for someone to add a feature to Gnome.

It's totally fine if you don't want to do that. If the person in the cube next to you does that, how is this an insult to you?

Maybe you're not the audience for this article.
> You can reliably experience The Universe, in a much more heightened fashion, in your own living room with shrooms or DMT

There is a big difference between actually doing something and hallucinating that you are doing something.
> Once upon a time, it was taken for granted that the wealthier classes enjoyed a life of leisure on the backs of the proletariat

They still do. They always did. It’s just so that now you are the proletariat.
Tell HN: The Software Developer OnCall Manifesto
We software developers require with regards to oncall

1. We receive a day off after each and every on-call shift whether we were paged or not.

2. Just as when patients who receive treatments from doctors do not go to the same doctor if there is an emergency a special emergency unit is created to handle these.

3. Whenever the teams are global then oncall shifts would be split according to working hour timeszones.

4. Whenever we get pages we demand time allocation to fix the root cause no matter how much time it takes and we are going to have a product freeze until the pronblem is fixed.

5. We are not going to incorporate in any oncall shift which have less than 8 people in the shift such that we would have space in between shifts.
I don't disagree with your take on the dark forest idea, but as an aside, what if the "unobtainium" is us? Or the biodiversity of the planet? If aliens show up and decide to make us a zoo or a reservation, or an experiment that could be just as unpleasant.
Bro, it's a digital baseball card.
How elites misread public opinion
Ex-Amazon Cloud Worker Convicted of Capital One Hack
>In an embedded system such a crash may be as bad as the incorrect access itself.

I don't agree on this point. An incorrect access on an embedded system has the potential to cause all kinds of horribly subtle bugs involving memory corruption. A simple crash is generally much better.
The median price of Bitcoin over the last 3 years is $20,471. That means, today, half of the people who bought in the last 3 years are down.

Yes, you could have bought Amazon stock in 2001. But if you're trying to judge rational investment strategy, 3 years of most people losing money sounds like a pretty significant figure.

For reference, the S&P (boring market index) 3 year return is +50%.

https://www.statmuse.com/money/ask/what%27s+the+median+price...

https://ycharts.com/indicators/sp_500_3_year_return
Looking at the people I know there is a huge overlap between free time and happiness. Unemployment is stressful, but looking at the extremes comfortable retirement easily beats constant overwork. And voluntarily working part time beats a full time job as long as their income is sufficient.

It’s only when you compare full retirement vs part time work that there is something of an aberration. But, that tends to be a self selecting population.
> "Russia lost pretty much everything"

This is not just about territorial loss. In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's fall, during the transition to a market economy, the oligarchs basically looted all of Russia's wealth by taking control of the old Soviet SOEs. It was a truly terrible time for a lot of ordinary people.

And Putin is the one who brought the oligarchs under control. So it's natural that he and much of the Russian people see him as the strong man who can pull Russia out of the 90s disaster and restore Russia to the glory it deserves. That's part of the mindset driving the present war, I think
That's not how anything works. Your sensibilities being offended is not the same as materially disrupting the operations of the business.
This is such a fundamental misunderstanding of what money is.

Money is an IOU (it also ends up having other uses, but fundamentally that’s what it is). That’s fundamentally all it is. And it’s also a unit. It’s a technology that allows me to determine that if 5 chickens are worth 1 sheep, and 3 sheep are worth 1 cow, then 1 cow is worth 15 chickens, without ever having to spend a second to do any math. This is essential in a complex economy where there may be millions if not billions such conversions.

Money that is useful for the purpose of smoothening the running of an economy has a few properties.

1) It’s value stays fairly stable. This means that people are confident spending money and receiving money that the value they agreed upon now will basically be the value tomorrow, so they don’t have to do additional work to figure out when they should make the transaction for optimal value (and since the optimal time is the opposite for both parties, it’s very difficult to find such a time and it always results in a win-lose situation).

2) It’s slightly inflationary. Money sitting under a mattress represents work that could be done that isn’t. This is a real waste of human output, because time is limited. So you want a slightly inflationary money to encourage spending and investment.

3) Money supply reflects the productive capacity of the economy. If the capacity of the economy grows, either due to more workers, or due to better productivity, the money supply needs to grow. Otherwise there will not be enough dollars to enable work to be done and we will waste human time and output simply because we don’t have enough of the means of exchange.

All of this is a difficult balance to strike, which is why you need people controlling the flow of money. We may eventually come up with algorithms that could measure a variety of real world inputs, such as the prices of goods, working population, productivity, etc. that can do that without human input, but it’s not possible yet because we don’t know the economic rules of how things work, so it becomes a matter of almost trial and error guided by some basic economic rules.
Are you implying that Bitcoin only had a 1 in a thousand or 1 in a million chance of it's price blowing up, and it got lucky? As in, the outcome comes out of pure randomness (think chaos theory)?
If Apple does this, you would say that why Pegasus would not change that certain files.
Is it ?

I did not know about AVMSD, and it doesn’t seem like having special provision to require login or drastic technical means:

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/avmsd-prot...

> Programmes which might simply be "harmful" to minors can only be transmitted when it is ensured that minors will not normally hear or see them. This can be done by selecting the time of the broadcast or by any technical measure such as e.g. encryption

> When harmful programmes are not encrypted, they must be preceded by an acoustic warning or by means of a clearly identifiable visual symbol throughout their duration.
Some context might be of interest here.

The chimneys that Dibnah worked to demolish were usually attached to cotton mills in and around Manchester in North West England. The cotton industry was in steep decline there in the 1970s and 1980s and one by one these mills became unprofitable and closed down. Even if the mill building could be repurposed the chimney wasn’t needed and would be expensive to maintain.

I suspect Dibnah got the work because he was the cheapest and the mill owner would typically be very short of cash.
I always wanted to do this. I would wire it up with sounds from Unreal Tournament:

Double Kill

Mega Kill

ULTRA kill
I disagree, having migrated multiple family members away from shitty plastic laptops full of bloat ware and ads and shitty Android phones full of the same they are much more able to use their devices.

I also find as a dev that iPhones and MacBooks “just work” and let me get my stuff done, much much more so than a Linux desktop environment or windows laptop.

I guess we may be talking about different things though if you’re saying the apple ecosystem isn’t living up to its full potential, but IMO the rest of the phone/computer ecosystem is full of cheap shitty plastic crap with windows installs that OEMs have had free reign to install whatever they want on (and even without that, why tf when I install windows 10 do I get ads for “candy crush” on my start menu?!)
> Are you sure they're wrong? Judging by the people I know, there's little overlap between having a ton of free time and being a happy, satisfied person.

As an anecdote to the contrary, I've just exited a half-year period of unemployment during which I spent a lot of time on hobbies, started eating much better, had nearly no stress in life, and built up a steady exercise routine. I met a lot of people from around the world and learned about them and the places they came from. I'd casually go on bike rides wherever and whenever I wanted and my absolute priority was my own well-being. Now I'm like a completely different person: stronger, more confident, healthier, and more appreciative and aware of the things in life that bring me joy.

I probably dragged out that stage of my life longer than I needed to or should have, because it was just so liberating. It felt like I was doing right by my body and soul for the first time in my life. Were it not for my slowly dwindling savings, I might have stayed even longer living like that. And that's the case of doing zero work. In a society with an emphasis on leisure you'd more likely be looking at work with flexible/reduced hours or extended vacations.
Yea they've already completed it on 1 of the 3 testnets and it went well. Other two in the next two months then mainnet deployment probably September.
Not sure they are that scarce, take for example the minister of defense. Also many of the high ranking officers in the military. The army is often the only way out of shitty social and economic situation and the situation is shitty in the various republics and oblasts
It was not just a territorial and population loss, Russia also "lost pretty much everything" economically during the 90s. Ordinary Russians suffered a lot as oligarchs enriched themselves by looting the old Soviet SOEs
40 hours in a day? Teach me your secrets.
A 501c6 can certainly decide what to tweet about. That is a separate question from just who can pay to be a member.
I know exactly what tweet you're talking about

I feel like I would be wary about someone watching children play, but I don't know if that's rational.
If the network is under load you can prioritize by paying a higher fee. If mining slows down it can take more time for a block, but difficultly will adjust to get back to 10mim cadence.

I'm not sure what you mean by centrally registered clients. You can still use bitcoin peer to peer. Also the idea that banning peer to peer bitcoin would be what would make decentralization not worthwhile feels rather circular.
The EU knew exactly what they were doing. The requirement for explicit consent was entirely intentional.

It was websites and businesses that chose cookie walls over data minimisation. Most websites don't need a cookie wall or even a popup. Even ad supported websites can use context based advertising without any tracking whatsoever but the choice is clear.

It's not always a political statement to add a cookie wall. Some companies are too lazy to consider alternatives, others don't care enough about their users. This stuff has been coming for years and nobody cared until suddenly everyone was "surprised" and now years later everybody is still acting like this is a recent development.

The message is always clear: your convenience as a customer is worth less than your data.
I think the point is they want to create a small, hopefully high-quality community. It doesn't sound like it's something intended for the "typical regular blogger off the street".

It's ok to build small, simple things. Not everything has to scale or be suitable for all users.
It’s 2022.
I kinda agree 1THz is considered Far IR at 100um, which is a LOT of bandwidth! From working with folks who did Tunnel Junction mixers, I think it's because things start looking particle-like, beyond wave-like at those frequencies.

I guess it's actually called EHF up to 300GHz.
Uncompressed video formats are vastly easier to decode than h.265 bgr or aac audio.
They are very different in those respects, correct. But I think the point here is that both are ways of achieving memory safety.
Binance NFT marketplace provides a wide range of services to help digital artists and collectors sell or trade their digital assets, including payment settlement, title registration, dispute resolution, and art gallery services to help users find the perfect digital asset.
>"Punch a Nazi" is only a slightly more serious notion, but there is firmly a tongue in cheek aspect to it.

I think we are debating cross topic.

There is a literal argument that if you think someone is a Nazi you should punch them in the face. It is not a widespread sentiment but advocated by fringe people.

Others are arguing against the literal interpretation. If you disagree with the literal interpretation, I think discussion of abstractions would be more fruitful
I had tracing GC in mind.
Ah, hmm. Every animation on the page does have a play/pause _except_ the exchange demo (laugh). I’ll play around with having it pause itself at key points and/or giving it a step button.
i'd say the voice was actually really good, the intonation/delivery was just off (literally just been watching Seinfeld properly for the first time).
Is this recent behavior or has it been consistent in a few major versions?
>> if Amazon can use this process to retain people who can work with timeline and pressure (and then rewards them so much they stay) it could be a huge win.

PIPs and the related actions are just a pretext.

They want to force the employees to quit or fire them and the PIP is just a tool to make it happen.

If the leaked memo in https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-wareh... is true (I suspect it is), then Amazon's reputation and practices for employee treatment are catching up to it and could cause problems.
Hello OP here.

Firstly, thanks for the great comments and suggestions. Its always worth it to ask fellow HN-ers about things and get their opinions.

Secondly, I want to clear some misconceptions that seem to have arisen based on how I worded some things. It was suggested that its foolish to think that once one knows Python, they have learnt all languages. I could not agree more. What I meant was that Python is my language of choice to turn a problem into code. I am not naive enough to suggest that I can solve any problem with Python. Regarding my experience, I first started programming in VB (not even VB.NET, that's how far back my experience goes!), and over the years have deployed applications in C, Java, .NET and Clojure in production. I have familiarized myself quite a bit with functional programming languages like Haskell and Ocaml. I have also worked with SQL and no-SQL databases (25 years is a long time!). I am fully aware of the pros and cons of statically-typed systems, so I don't feel the need to learn yet another statically (or for that matter dynamically) typed language.

And lastly, based on the wonderful suggestions, I feel like I could narrow down my next learning journey into one (or more) of the following. I am stating these just in case they could be of use to someone in the same boat:

- Networks was suggested (thank you!) which really piqued my interest but I am thinking it might be better to get more specific and be intimately familiar with HTTP spec and best practices in API development. Methods to enable an API for any backend functionality seems to be a good skill to possess.

- Documentation - how to easily enable documentation for functionality, and basic tenets of good software documentation. Learn to introduce practices in the team that foster a culture of documentation.

- ML. I have learnt the very preliminary basics of this (using the seminal course by Andrew Ng!) but what I feel might be useful for me is to be a bridge between ML scientists and data engineering (I am a data engineer currently). Basically something related to ML Ops.

Again, thanks for these amazing suggestions. HN never fails me. I am not very active on HN, but hope to help out in future.

P.S: I will also respond to specific comments/questions to clarify. Seems wrong to leave some comments in the current state! :)
Sadly doesn't come in the right moment for me. I am currently in the institute of speedthef**updomoreandearnyourfirstthreepenniesonyourownalready
This is a Youtube UI issue to be honest, most other video players don't letter box a vertical video and just play it at the right aspect ratio

I know that people extrapolate this experience to other things they think they dislike about vertical videos, but satisfaction improves with the player itself working well

The ubiquitous mobile device audience is fine too, as the video fits their screens just like the device it was recorded on. With the exception of youtube.
Alternate theory: "Justice" has become a meaningless buzzword favored by power seekers as a cloak for their ambitions; as "God's Grace" was a while before that.

How much of the "justice" is being imposed on others? How many victims have to be educated about their victimization?
> I challenge you to find anything supporting a Democratic or liberal position.

Three weeks ago the editorial section ran a piece by Joe Biden: https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-plan-for-fighting-inflation-...
This sort of over-the-top flamewar comment is off topic on HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

We've had to ask you before not to post like this. If you keep it up, we're going to have to ban you—not because we disagree with your views (we don't know or care what those are) but because we don't want this place to burn to a crisp.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
It's not supposed to be possible to extradite someone for political crimes, such as espionage. It doesn't matter if the acts in question are considered crimes in the UK. What matters is that the acts are political in nature.

This is a traditional carve-out included in almost every extradition treaty the US has signed for over a hundred years, and it's included in the US-UK extradition treaty. However, the UK court ruled that despite this protection, which is supposed to exist and which is written into the treaty, the UK Parliament has not incorporated the protection into UK law.

So as it stands, the traditional protection against extradition for political crimes no longer exists in the UK, at least for people facing extradition to the US. However, the protection still applies for people facing extradition from the US to the UK, because the treaty has force of law in the US.
The company I work for spends 2-3x a month on servers and we have like 10 daily active users.
There shouldn't be adjectives on kills unless there is a kill streak or multiple at once.
C++Now 2022: Rust features that I want in C++
Can be selfhosted too
They are still looting and I'd say it's not so clear cut who is controlling whom nowdays.

Glory is off course in the eye of beholder and the desire to be glorious is definitely at the root of this war.
Galaxy Z Flip 3 folded for record 418,503 times in extreme test
You haven't heard of decentralized finance? It's a $250B industry mostly running on Ethereum.

Constantly surprised how out of the loop HN is on this.
I wouldn't say that people are stupid. Many people just desperately need a car. I wish it were not the case, but at least in the United States, most people need to buy a car or else they cannot go to work, get groceries, etc. Indeed, most suburban places in the United States are car-dependent places: you cannot do anything without a car. That was by design. I cannot judge people for paying such high prices given that they need a car when living in that kind of environment. If anything, I sympathize. I too am floored by the current car prices, but I think you underestimate how desperate some of these people are for a car, any car, immediately.

That said, I do also agree that a lot of this now cultural. The subdivision I am currently living in is reasonably small, on the order of 100 houses. Despite this small size, I see people driving their kids to the bus stop a few hundred feet away (yes, even on clear days with good weather!). Today is the yearly yard sale and as I type this people are driving up to a house, getting out to look at what is being sold, getting back in their car, and driving to the next house (and the lots are not large!). That's just one of the problems with suburbs in general. They acclimate people to driving everywhere, so they think that they need to drive everywhere, even when it really is perfectly walkable.
This is a cost of two lunches w/ Putin.
Apple take 30%. You have to understand that you're not paying just for the service, but the reach. You can DIY your donation platform and the tech side isn't rocket science, the issue that platforms like Patreon and Apple have access to orders of magnitude more users than you can ever generate on your own.
> If we can add Feel to the humble checkbox, imagine what it could do for apps that aid in personal connections or creativity.

For some that will be grand, for me, I'd much rather they kept unobtrusively discrete and let me get on with the creativity.
I don't code in C/C++.
In the words of Groucho Marx: "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member".
As it's been hovering around there for a week I assume most have deleveraged by now.
>Has it occurred to you that the lack of people willing to pay for what you're trying to offer may be indicative that it's not quite as valuable as you perceive it to be?

Is producing cigarettes, making apps more addictives, making food superpalatable, synthetizing pernicious drugs and so on more valuable than producing documentaries, studying ancient languages and civilazations, studying exoterical physics topics?

Not everything that we're paying for is valuable and not everything valuable is being paid for.