skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of a couple use cases.

1. You started on AWS using Cloudformation and now your branching out to other cloud providers and you want to use a cloud agnostic IaC tool.

2. Your company uses Terraform but you come across a rouge team that used Cloudformation.

3. Your company uses Terraform and your about to deploy X but you cant find any Terraform starter code but you do find an AWS quick start.

4. You started with Cloudformation but later discovered Terraform and now you want to migrate everything.
Is the $20K threshold 'key' in any way other than just being a nice round number?
Depending on the county, you can walk into a bank and get cash for your gold coins. In other words, governments are behind it. Good luck doing that with crypto.
These are expensive but fantastic more than worth the cost courses. [1] [2]

[1] https://learnui.design/

[2] https://learnui.design/courses/learn-ux-design.html
It's obviously a joke based on the fact the domain name is 'slow down now'
> Error establishing a database connection

Eh, I'll read it later. No rush.
It only means that complex life is less frequent then single cell life, not that it is uncommon.
I'll never understand these arbitrary numbers people come up with to write news articles. As if $20k is any more special than $20.313k. Liquidity isn't even concentrated at round numbers.

The only key threshold is zero. Like, you know, the thing Tether hopefully converges to.
Beautiful retort to a lazy argument.
> I can pay my real estate tax with cash. I can go to the store and buy food with cash.

People in El Salvador can do the same with bitcoin, no?
I just tried the prompt in the GPT-3 playground and got a similar result. I tried a bunch of other "A Jerry Seinfeld stand-up routine about X." prompts too - it's an interesting prompt format.

Here's what I got for "A Jerry Seinfeld routine about Datasette." (my open source project). Note that the "." is important - without it, GPT-3 tried to generate me a README file for a new Datasette plugin instead.

Jerry:

Hey, have you ever heard of this new website called Datasette?

George:

No, what is it?

Jerry:

Well, it's basically a way to store and share data sets.

George:

Huh. Sounds kind of boring.

Jerry:

Yeah, I know. But it's actually really useful. For example, say you wanted to find out how many people in your city use the same first name as you.

George:

Why would I want to know that?

Jerry:

I don't know. But with Datasette, you could easily find out.

George:

Really? That sounds kind of useful.

Jerry:

Yeah, it's actually really handy for all sorts of things. So if you ever need to find out anything about a data set, Datasette is the place to go.
The weird bit about SimCity wasn't so much the low tax rates, as the system encouraging you to set higher tax rates on the poor than the rich as the main way to ensure a city full of shiny villas rather than crumbly shacks. That's... actually not how wealth is created.
I hope you're kidding, and I also hope you're totally serious.
Happens all the time in the MTA, just Google it
After reading this I came to the conclusion that smart people are really smart
Tbh KDE is worse at this because at least when you are using Gnome it won't call Nautilus Nautilus. It will call it Files, unlike on Plasma where Dolphin will be called Dolphin instead of being called Files or File Manager, which means that people who don't know Dolphin is the file manager will just be really confused as to what Dolphin is, especially if they don't already know that this icon always means file manager no matter what 0S you're on. Linus actually had this issue when he couldn't figure out what Kate was because he saw Kate and he thought what's Kate. Whereas on Gnome it would just say Text Editor instead of gedit. If you are using the terminal, you are more likely to know the actual name of the program so that's less bad for me. And on KDE if you are opening graphical applications through the console, you still have to open them through their weird code names. For example, Dolphin which makes no sense whatsoever. Just the same as Nautilus makes no sense whatsoever so that arguement is somewhat disingenuous.
You don't need to be an expert to notice that some of the verbalization lacks a pause or a more dramatic flair, to make the joke land better.

It sounds like Uncanny Valley Seinfeld. Almost like him. But not really.
IMHO, low priority io throttle has been just about horrible in every way since it was introduced.

You can tell when it was introduced if you google for things like "time machine got super slow for no reason" and see when they start occurring en masse.

It has a strong habit, even on 100% completely idle machines, of slowing down throughput by 10x.
A flash crash (an order book getting dried up) is a form of glitch. It's very different from having the market price BTC at 20k for real.
If one had invested in the right lottery ticket that too would fetch a pretty good price.
Ask HN: Has anyone moved to Puerto Rico, was it worth it?
I'm interested if anyone has moved to PR from the United States for financial reasons and if so, what their experience was/is.
> To dereference a generational reference, we do a "liveness check" to see whether the allocation's generation number still matches our reference's target generation.

How does this work with threading (use after check)? Or are allocations always limited to a single thread?

> This will safely halt the program

So it’s not statically memory-safe. That’s not hugely attractive I have to say.
This example gets trotted out a lot but I don't really understand it. Why do we assume cyclists have a conceptual mechanical understanding of a bicycle and can remember its exact appearance? If they build or repair bicycles, sure, but the majority of people don't do that. They just have learnt how to operate one by instinct.
I also like how this exhibits a classic GPT-3 trait: it's always biased towards having characters agree with each other. Here George breaks the entire bit by saying "Really? That sounds kind of useful."
It has been, literally, many decades since I last found a place where C++ code would benefit from use of a goto statement.

Those few places where they appear in (what would have been) defensible C code are better served by reliance on destructors. I.e., it is much better to start compiling the C code with a C++ compiler, and then clean it up.
The problem with that is jumping around to the many different GUI toolkits, where many prefer or are trying to minimize the number.
Yes the crypto bubble was partly fueled by free money. It is yet to be determined if it will be able to reach the same highs as before
Is Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot the Future? (2020)
false, spacex is a contractor with bounding contracts, who cares which organization spend the money. The contract matter, if you want to argue, there is starliner to criticize
It doesn't. Or, rather, RAII flow is strictly, explicitly better.
People need an alternative to regulated fraud.
Folks who bought at an all time high and didn't sell lower, aren't likely to sell now. They understand the phrase 'buy low, sell high' from experience.
MacOS Big Sur out of the box does not show a title bar for the after-screenshot editor. How do I configure it to show a title bar so I can use your tip?
I'm contemplating visiting this site. What does everyone else think?
I didn't confuse it with Vala, but with Val:

https://github.com/val-lang/val
The original comment is still valid: why is the drop in Bitcoin on the top page of HN, and the drop of GOOG not?
This one is a little less arbitrary. The community put a lot of stock in the fact that while volatile, bitcoin had never crashed below a major previous peak.

As of this morning, that’s no longer true. Still “just” psychology, sure, but the collective impact of that psychology makes the market.
You can bet there's a lot of crypto billionaires cum millionaires sweating 50 calibre bullets over the state of Tethers reserves.
Design Systems: Where Designers and Developers Meet
Exactly. I was speculating on why the hash rate doesn't seem correlated with the price of Bitcoin.

The miners already have their rigs, so the initial investment wouldn't be relevant to the decision to keep mining or not. Though, you might expect the hash rate to decay over time as miners stop buying new machines.
Seems totally fine to me.
> Chernobyl and three mile Island really shouldn't have happened. Fukushima was much later in the game but was also bad design.

Fukushima was an older reactor then Chernobyl, by 6 years (commissioned 1971 vs 1977).

Very old nuclear reactors are common partly because it's been politically untenable to build new ones, even if the new ones are safer.
Justice Eats the World
You can always create an NFT connected to Zilch that tries to capture value for your unique collectible.
> I think it's reasonable to conclude that Tesla caused the global move away from IC cars to EVs.

I agree—but that's "caused", past tense. The shift has begun and is continuing, and Tesla no longer has much influence on it. If every one of Musk's companies went belly-up tomorrow, the fight against climate change would not be harmed.
> If it becomes acceptable to work 10 hours per week, will society stagnate because there is not enough time to transmit knowledge from one generation to the next?

No, I believe that he assumption that leisure time can't also be productive is fundamentally false. When given the opportunity to create what truly matters to people, I think we'd see some surprising results. Just look at open source, I hope to see a day that someone can dedicate the majority of their hours to open source work without having to majorly compromise their lifestyle if they so choose.

Right now, we create what those who own the capital believe to be important, there's no empirical evidence that the products I've personally worked on in my career, for example, make any meaningful effort to transmit knowledge from one generation to the next. Most of the software I've built probably won't be around in 20 years even, I'd be shocked if any of it is still around when I die.
I was looking at the one on my pile and thinking "betta tank". I think it'd have to sit with he front of the screen at an angle, tho; to make the most of the volume. Put it on a high shelf and let the fish look down on your desk.
> I can pay my real estate tax with cash. I can go to the store and buy food with cash.

Can you do that in Zimbabwe?
Sounds a lot like ZeroStableCoin, discussed a few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31714556.
What makes DALLE Mini great is that we can all sit down and play with it, with no "oh this thing might destroy humanity" warning. A warning that most people who have worked seriously on different areas of AI find annoying for different reasons, but mainly it feels like a marketing gimmick to draw attention.

I have lots of friends who aren't related to the tech field having lots of fun playing with DALLE Mini, even though the results are terribly looking -- if they sort of resemble the prompt (and many times they do), they are ecstatic that the machine made a weird doodle about something ridiculous.
The price of Bitcoin in May of 2020 was under $10k.
Mind you, technical analysis is a self-fulfilling prophecy. People tend to buy into “lines of resistance” and “lines of support”, and then they place orders around those milestone / psychological prices. You can literally see it on the order book. (Not to mention conditional orders)

I wonder if the effect is magnified in assets with higher retail market share (e.g. meme stocks and crypto)
i doubt you’ll have much left or be able to buy a decent house with 300k total income in the bay area.
It lacks the cultural awareness to pick a topic that would actually surprise a listener, hence not really funny. But the tone and structure was nearly flawless.
I worry less about the future of the tech, and more about hack comedians generating entire sets based on other people's material.
The issue isn’t simply all creation of money being bad, it’s when these schemes get out of control.

Thus, the issue is solved via currency reserve requirements. Crypto on the other hand can’t solve the problem because they can’t set laws so anyone can set up a Bank using on chain wallet(s) and then issue loans and offer interest on deposits etc.
Aside from psychology, a lot of people set triggers to sell if it drops below these round numbers. So once it "breaks a barrier" it's likely to go done further than if it breached $20.313k
Saying "yes" the golden rule of improv.
Nothing stopping it from going to $1. Bitcoin is just as functional at $1 as it is at $50k.
Reasons are journalistic. People need explanations and stories. The complexity that real world offers doesn't make a good story, but sounds just boring and doesn't collect clicks.
Does anyone seriously studying economics seriously make a distinction between market behavior and psychology anymore? It seems like the Homo Economicus rational optimizer idea is dead to all but those ideologically committed.
You shorted it when it was this obvious?
SnD Reverser Tool if you're looking for an oldschool, really tiny / lightweight, native (and also cool looking) application. Such tools are meant to be native.
I would definitely suggest baby goats: my family used to have them and they were the best “time wasters” :) especially if you give them a trampoline
The market is made up of a lot of human participants who do consider 20k to be an important number for a variety of reasons.
And how do we know that this is actually GPT-3 generated (ad infitum)
It does come in handy in some scenarios:

choice /c abc
goto choice%errorlevel%

:choice1
:choice2
:choice3

Or, for command-line parameters:

set ops=a b c
set op=%1
for %%p in (%ops%) do if "%op%"=="%%p" goto %op%
goto usage
So you think they should let the Russians win: https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/pacifism/english/e_pa...
If interest rates are high then the typical borrower can no longer compete with the cash buyers buying up all the real estate. How does that play out?
Tau, anyway.

It seems unlikely anybody else would make the pi mistake.
If they're still holding I don't think they quite understand the "sell high" part.
Does it incorporate microdistributed PoV (Proof of value) that can only be obtained through QHC (quantum hash cryptography), offering the best path to FEV (fiat escape velocity)? /s
Often I’m dismayed at what gets posted to HN on the weekend, but this seems perfect for (what is in this time zone) a Saturday morning.
But by that definition cash is useless.

I'm not a cryptocurrency fan, but I don't think this is a good argument against it, anything people ascribe value to (however dumb one thinks it is) has.. value.

If I can swap a bitcoin for $20k then a bitcoin is just as useful as $20k.
Bitcoin's value will move towards zero as more governments make it illegal, just so they can roll out their own central bank's crypto.
I agree, but insurance is part of the pay.

Im a bit skeptical that the poster would actually be happy with 10% pay, which would probably not cover the insurance, shelter, and food they are used to.

That said, I am open minded and there are certainly people that do live on 10% of a SWE salary. You can rent a mobile home in a low CoL area, get on Medicaid, and have a lot of free time. Some people do exactly this, but it is a pretty rare breed.
> Fortunately his legacy is continued by "British scaffolders" - a famous sub-group within construction, who you can still see to this day getting utterly shit-faced in a pub on cider over lunch, before returning to site.

'Fortunately'?

I'm not up for prissiness and stupid rules but hefty metalwork being put in high places - there's nothing good about mixing alcohol with that.

Edit: I'll go further - I'm disturbed that you can endorse macho bullshit culture that can get themselves or worse, any bystanders, mashed up or killed.
I can buy an array of chemical substances on the internet with cryptocurrency
DALLE-2 (from OpenAI) isn't, but DALLE Mini (from huggingface) is: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini
Have you considered setting up Calibre to automatically fetch and convert articles?
I'm creating an NFT for every unique point in the void of outer space. They'll be auctioned off denominated in Zilch.
the topic was chosen by the creator, not the AI
> can we estimate how many planets in the galaxy have eukaryotes?

Not yet. In the history of life on Earth, this has happened once. Knowing what we know about cellular biology, it’s stupidly unlikely. Beyond our present theories’ ability to quantify.

By the way, I think this is one of—if not the—great filters. It’s unlikely to happen, to not promptly get smote by its primordial planet’s tantrums and to get it so right it perpetuates for billions of years.
Sure, but the price of gold doesn't really follow industry trends -- it's got more to do with the fact that it's a historical store of value / object of desire for the masses.
Even in France 50k is very little for his skillset. It looks like a conscious decision on his part to take only this much out.
It's a convenient excuse to collect data given what their primary business is.

If pornography websites (which host much more "spicy" content that what will ever be allowed on YouTube) manage to get away with simply asking for age (or not asking at all in certain locations) there's no justification for YouTube to not be able to do the same.
It's below the peak before the 2017/2018 crash happened?
I actually thought your comments on having centrally described infrastructure pretty deserving of its own reply.

Because switching to Terraform doesn't mean you would lose this capability. It just moves it from the AWS console to your code repository. Correctly written Terraform code will show what is deployed in AWS and how it's inter-related.

Unfortunately while Terraform is an IaC tool, it will allow you to write non-IaC code. So if you have a Terraform root module, but you cant tell what's deployed where, because someone made the AWS creds a variable instead of hard coded... That's not real IaC.
"Russia lost pretty much everything"

It's worth looking at the map, the Russian Federation as it is today is huge.

A lot of the territory and it's peoples are underdeveloped and economically depressed. So much could be done there.

I spent a few hours watching Girkin's (aka Strelkov) channel on VK. The man is the unofficial mouthpiece of the hawks faction in the government. It is pure nationalistic empire building.
My assumption in NYC has always been that there is no such thing as a scaffolding warehouse, and scaffolding remains at one site until it is needed at another.
Something can be 10x better than the best X (X=fake Seinfeld), an amazing achievement, but still be a bad Y (Y=Seinfeld).

This audio was like using Seinfeld's unconscious body as a puppet.
How well this does this work for Amazon?

I mean, 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.
> What makes DALLE Mini great is that we can all sit down and play with it, with no "oh this thing might destroy humanity" warning

It seems like the DALL-E creators are mostly worried about the (possibly justified!) fear that people will use it to make racist or other offensive imagery, and it would bring very bad PR to the team.
If I was working at the place where my colleagues were trying to actively undermine CEO by character assassination, that would be disruptive for me. Those folks as my experience at workplace shows could be quite bullies. Working by their side would absolutely be disruptive.
But if a crypto coin is never mined, how can it be hacked?
Bitcoin has the name, which is used a lot as a synonym for cryptocurrency. Don't underestimate the branding power of such a marketing position (Same like Cleanex & Coca-Cola)
I used this a lot to work with timestamps until I switched to Raycast and made an extension to do the same.
> i personally do not have a use for age restricted youtube videos

The main problem is that a lot of science videos that contain flames or "dangerous" stuff are now age-restricted. It's not just about the content you'd typically associate with age-restrictions.
Bitcoins best use case has always been in illegal trade. My guess is it'll retain some value due to use in the drug trades, etc
What is the price per coin? NaN?
19M for Lunch with Buffet
Are you talking about Tether releasing trustworthy detail of their financials (something I would LOVE to see)?

Otherwise, don't really know what you want bitfinex to release here. If somebody wants to claim that the increase in long open interest is actually bitfinex themselves going leveraged long bitcoin, do you expect the exchange to release individual client positions so it can point to whomever else actually has the open interest?

There's no basis to the claims that are being made by this poster and I don't see why anybody would care other than that it fits the narrative and it's from a popular account.
Fwiw, there's a pretty decent discussion of the "expert/trained" interface vs the "beginner" interface in Theirry Bardini's book about Douglas Engelbart.

Engelbart assumed people wanted an interface for "trained experts" -- the idea being computer applications were important enough for people to invest time in learning new concepts to make their work more efficient.

Larry Tessler and others argued you should present a beginner's interface based on existing metaphor. Larry eventually went on to work at PARC and Apple where his work inspired (and frustrated) generations of computer users.

Boarding noted that Tessler (and others in PARC) needed a raision d'etre inside the Xerox organization and partially used "building document handling systems for secretaries" to justify their budget. Kay was well known at the time for wanting to use computers in education, so it's no wonder the interface Jobs saw at PARC was one tweaked for beginners.
Wrong! In reality low rates does not mean more people are qualified for loans. So what happens is more people don't get loans. Or at least many more. Now if you change laws to make it attractive for people with higher risk to get loans. Or give them loans from the government. Etc... That's different.
If you like databases, you can start exploring the internals and write one! There is no going back once you dig deep into the storage internals, KV stores, and distributed systems.

plug: I made an educational project which can help you write a database in python, from scratch - https://github.com/avinassh/py-caskdb
My feeling is that ultimately causality will turn out to be the same as “absence of contradiction”, and that time is just an emergent phenomenon in the causal network of all possibilities.
We should do both. Both hydrogen and battery use an electrified power train, and the hydrogen plane would probably have a small lithium battery anyway.
What Money Can't Buy
Just do whatever you like!

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. "Just eating whatever you want" results in being a five hundred pound diabetic who dies of a heart attack at 40. Are we so certain "just doing whatever you want" isn't equally toxic to our happiness and mental health?
There's a lovely Perlisism for this: "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant." Which is interesting in this context because it's clearly not a good fit for Ante, where it looks like many traditional features of "low-level" languages no longer require such attention! So maybe it's not Perlis-low-level; maybe it's "machine-oriented"?
I'm involved with NFTs as an artist, developer, and trader. Slip ups do happen and I just consider them the cost of doing business. Losses can be mitigated with some basic opsec like using multiple hardware wallets, etc.
Or you could read the manual for one app and use it for a long time.