skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People keep thinking that because the economy picks out a few winners that means that the system is now locked in stone - that isn't the case. The economy is perfectly happy to change things up radically when the situation changes. At least until a government steps in and regulates the ability to change flexibly out of the system.

This flexibility and survival of the fittest mentality is costing people billions; of course a government would step in, because clearly the economic techno-libertarians aren't able to come up with a secure and stable system.

At some point, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies sounded like We The People taking power back from the big bad government and banks. In practice, it turns out - to everyone's sarcastic surprise - that a handful of people got very rich off it and shat on those lofty goals.

I'm not buying it. Never did. Yeah I missed the boat on getting rich and I am salty about it, so it exceeded my initial cynicism, but it's still inherently broken. Unregulated finance attracts conmen. So does regulated finance but at least they can be tracked down.
Yeah, I infrequently get a “too many requests sorry!” backpressure error. Sometimes my votes get lost to this?

And once in a blue moon, HN gets hammered by unusual traffic and becomes somewhat unusable while logged in.
> I ran a HPC cluster for an University, and relied upon good old NFSv3 for shared file storage(both home directories, and research datasets).

Used in lots of places if they don't want to go GPFS, Lustre, maybe CephFS nowadays. Dell-EMC Isilon is used in lots of places for NFS (and SMB): I worked at a place that had >10PB in one file system/namespace (each node both serves traffic and has disk/flash, replicated over a back-end).

> […] we use a centralised FreeIPA server that allows all machines in the cluster have the same UID/GID mapping everywhere.

(Open)LDAP is still very handy as well and used in many places. (AD is technically LDAP+Kerberos.)
> At least until a government steps in and regulates the ability to change flexibly out of the system.

Just as often, the government is the only one who can keep the flexibility and ensure free competition. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_1890
A vCPU also represents a CPU _thread_ which is usually half a core.

Sometimes you will share the CPU.
There's several cities within Harris County (Houston, Texas), and the Houston area -which some people will refer to as "Houston", "Greater Houston", or "the Greater Houston Area", overlaps several counties.

There are also several cities wholly contained within the City of Houston itself. West University and Bellaire come to mind; there's probably more but I can't be bothered.

It's a mess to someone who likes things neat :)
As someone who does this day to day, I think k8s is worth it for anything non-trivial. If I didn't already have this understanding, then it might be a different trade off.
In my experience Darti s not a problem at all. It's a simple boring javaesque language you can learn relatively quickly if are already proficient in other languages, plus you don't really need to use all features of Dart to create multiplatform apps.

What if more difficult is Flutter itself: you basically need to learn everything from scratch: the architecture, they way to write apps, plus all the library functions you may need. My experience is that this particular aspect took me much longer than learning Dart itself.
Gamersnexus has been similarly expanding their capabilities with very expensive fan testing equipment. They seem to be one of the better sources of consumer tech journalism these days.
I follow that, but I still have to ask:
Why does it often ignore the quote marks it suggests to me?
It's supposed to search for that exact string, but it never does and shows the same rubbish regardless. The quote marks should resolve the contradition between synonym searching and specific strings and they don't for some bizzare reason
Ask HN: What do you use VMs for regularly?
I know many people use VMs for work, or to test things they develop. Makes sense.

But what else do people use it for? I want to hear interesting or unusual things you use a VM for.

For example, I have thought of running a VM only to use git in there, maybe so try and see if magit will run faster in a VM rather than on the host macos. I also have thought of using a VM to only run a browser in there, to keep the memory under control. Not sure any of these are good, but they are interesting.

What are your ideas or actual ways you use VMs?
This is how things were handled at Facebook. Your view of a disputed border depends on your country. i.e. You'll see whatever borders are favorable to your own country's interpretation.
This can sometimes be intentional and driven by situational circumstance. I’ve seen this in an incident response setting where people at all levels didn’t want to know as they’d be obliged to deal with it then. Peoples ethics extended so far as if they didn’t have actual evidence of a thing then it wasn’t a thing. This was driven by the finder being the one that had to fix it. So especially likely to occur to talented people and those with initiative as they’d be the ones that have to deal with it.
But those companies only exist because the US regulatory framework allows them to exist as long as they follow the rules. If the CEO of Walmart sent out an email saying that everyone was fired and that all stores should be demolished, he would be fired by the board of directors within hours. Also other executives would respond to the email telling everyone to ignore the previous email while they see if the CEO was hacked.

The entire point of crypto is to bypass the regulatory framework. In some cases that may make for a more robust system in some cases it may not.
> Its first use case is for the Diem blockchain...

Where is this 'Diem' blockchain? I can't find this anywhere or use it at all, so this essentially means that there is no use case for this language.

The amount of time we are wasting on blockchains can be directed toward other meaningful endeavours such as climate change, privacy friendly tech and technologies that push humanity forward.

This however is a spawn of a failed project that isn't even used in any production capacity and is a complete failure.
Perhaps it comes down to a preference of reading code depth-first vs. breadth-first. Reading code only is best for depth-first I guess. Suppose function A has a call graph that is 3-6 levels deep, with 3 immediate children.

If you want to read it breadth-first, you'll want some context as to what the three children do. If you want to read it depth-first, the comments are somewhat redundant, because you're going down to the source anyway.

I rarely have a desire (and even less often a strict need) to understand the whole call graph of a function. If it works fine, tests pass, and I want to understand / change one specific behaviour, I need to grok a slither of the entire possible call graph. Comments help guide where I'm going then. If grokking the whole thing, I see how comments are at best a waste of space.
Not sure if Amazon still does this but when someone asked a question about a recently purchased item you’ll get an email with their question. A lot of times the response is something like “I don’t know quit emailing me” or something similar.
Hmmm, I see. I would have considered a political exemption to cover issues of political dissent, but I suspect espionage to be a gray area where it very much depends on political sensitivities. I.e. the US probably wouldn't try to extradite a UK citizen working for the UK intelligence community to not ruffle feathers, and the US simply outright won't extradite its own spies regardless. Sure, probably not fair, but there you are. Assange though is neither a US, nor a UK citizen, has definitely annoyed the US and crucially his acts if committed against the UK would count as crimes locally, which is usually one test for extradition in many treaties (haven't checked if it applies to the UK-US one).

For example, searching around, it looks like the US has asked spies to be extradited before and succeeded: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/us/politics/china-spy-esp...

I'm still not sympathetic even if he has a political defence, however. Wikileaks has published at least one classified UK document, which means he can be charged under the OSA in the UK anyway under the onwards disclosure clause (I don't know if they'll do this. Probably not, I would guess, due to lack of evidence. I do know there is a consultation ongoing to revamp the OSA partially in response to Snowden: press: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-57998950, law commission review: https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/protection-of-official-dat... consultation: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...). I think he would have stood a better chance of avoiding extradition pretty much anywhere else than the UK, including Sweden, which is why I am not sympathetic (if you're going to spit in the eye of the US, the UK is probably not one of the places to be when you do it). I'm also... perplexed, to put it charitably, as to why he'd avoid the Swedish extradition, as I think he would have had a better chance of avoiding extradition from Sweden to the US than the fight he currently has (where he has pretty much zero chance).
I know less about AWS and Good ads, but Facebook has bought each and every social network it could afford to prevent any chance of havjng competition - most notably Instagram and WhatsApp. That is the very definition of monopolistic practices.
I don't believe it will catch on. Consumers don't care about security. Engineers do, but not at expense of usability.
Vitalik and his dad: crypto should be more than about money
Completely agree. It's impossible to inspect any aspect of Bitcoin's design without considering its incentive structures. They are the innovation in my mind. Every blockchain/crypto/Dao/<insert buzz word> forgoes one of Bitcoin's perfectly balanced incentive structures in favor of some "innovation" (speed, programability, founder/VC enrichment) which always inevitably leads to centralization and exploitable risk somewhere in the system.

Every time it happens it hardens my opinion that a L1 should be like the foundation of a building - it should have one job (be hard money), it should be simply and elegantly designed, it shouldn't have any cracks (a.k.a misaligned incentive structures), it should evolve very slowly if at all, and it should be designed to be built on top of. L1 exists to anchor L1+N to the real world and that's it.
I am currently building Caido (https://caido.io) without funding and the best decision we ever made was to build it as a team. The second decision that I made differently from my first attempt at a startup was to drop all my freelance contracts and only focus on that project. You need a lot of mental space to build a business and I found I almost burned myself out when I tried to build it while working on other projects. Last decision was to move back to my parent's place to cut cost and live frugally for the year (<300$/month). Not possible for a lot of people, but I don't think it would have been possible otherwise since I don't have savings.

Same as the author we tried to get funding and mostly failed. In the end I think it is for the best as I am not a fan of the growth at all cost, I much prefer to build a smaller sustainable business if that is still possible. One thing that I wish we had is a more experienced person in the team since we burned time and money for stuff we didn't know better (small tear when I see my lawyer bill). It is a great experience otherwise, I just hope it will go somewhere.
Perhaps. Even still, social networks ebb and flow, there is no guarantee that people will continue to use Instagram in the future, so even as they were acquired, it might have been for naught in the end.
In Google Maps, when reverse geocoding a point on the map that is disputed, the result will not return any country identifier. They base this logic on the UN list of disputed areas.
> The fact that your uncle is not "looking for web3" does not mean that other people are not using it.

the fact that a couple of your friends are using it, doesn't make it "Letterman interviewing Gates" material.

(btw, Letterman was being facetious, as per usual Letterman)

> And, fiy, I was born and raised in Brazil.

which is 10th economy by GDP in the World, just below Italy, my country, in front of many of what you called "privileged" European countries, such as Spain or the Netherlands...

More importantly: sending money to Brazil from Europe costs me a fixed Euro 0.5-0.6, plus maximum 1% of the sum (if sending up to Euro 115, less if sending more).

Very cheap, if you ask me.

> Your instinct is wrong. I can not do anything about that.

You could tell us why you are not able to explain what's the advantage for the average internet user, except avoiding taxes and hiding money...
Wonder what the actual connectivity will be like. Dun Laoghaire has had open WiFi for several years, but I’ve never found it to be functional - can connect, get an IP, but apps like Tweetbot can’t load data.
Well, that’s what I’ve been trying to do since 2017: https://intercoin.org/applications

Unfortunately, greed is a big motivator and speculators take all the air out of the room. Projects like IPFS, MaidSAFE, ION and others are doing some awesome things that are not money related, too.
0.012 in Edge
Why aren't more of them using Common Crawl? Is it flawed?
Grain Brings Functional Programming to WebAssembly
Could you say more about the problem you're trying to solve?
> I don’t understand the “too heavy” complaint anyway; people cook with cast iron (Lodge / Le Creuset) all the time, and it is significantly heavier than Demeyere.

Yes, and they have reviews for cast iron for people that (a) can deal with the weight, and (b) want the thermal 'inertia' of all the extra mass.

But plenty of folks (i) aren't strong enough, or (ii) want something more responsive to heat adjustments.

They have testers of all shapes and sizes: (five-foot-nothing?) Lisa McManus and (six-foot?) Adam Ried would handle things differently:

* https://www.americastestkitchen.com/tour

If something is heavy/unwieldy, and you have hot oil in it, then it can become a safety hazard. There are trade-offs in any engineering decision.
This is a huge problem nowadays. I think pretty much everyone has been in such situation... This makes me cynical about WTF must be going on at the top to require so many people to 'not want to know.'

We have a hierarchy made up of layers upon layers of "I don't want to know" and people rise to a level proportional to what they are comfortable knowing (and keeping secret).
Moved all my domains to DO specifically to stop donating traffic data to Cloudflare. Absolutely stunned I didn't notice this earlier.

It's bullshit all the way down.

Are there any companies left offering free DNS usable from Terraform that aren't part of the "Internet Five Eyes"?

edit: looks like Linode may be the next best 'not terrible' option
Transfer-printing technique to integrate metal electrodes, 2D materials on wafer
Hi, author here. Thanks for reading my stuff! :-) I did not go into details of geopolitical issues because I covered that in an earlier article: https://solutionspace.blog/2022/05/23/map-data-ii-the-role-o...
Here's how to make sure you parse emails, addresses, names, anything user entered: use the info to verify.

Don't write a regex, don't try to check if _you_ think it is valid. If you need it to be valid, (e)mail them something at that address and get a verification code back.

The amount of times I've been told 1/2 addresses aren't valid (technically, in the US, an address can be any fraction [0]), any address over 30 characters, domains that have tlds longer than 3 characters, domains that have tlds shorter than 3 characters, domains that aren't gmail.com, on and on and on.

Just stop. Stop trying to fit user-entered content into your tiny conception of what is "valid". Your user knows better than you and there is zero chance you'll write or should write a mega regex to determine validity.

[0]: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub28/28ape_004.htm
>I think your objection, together with the author of the review, rests on the assumption that throughout history there have always existed a mass audience that consumes and supports literate music.

Here in Europe, in many countries like Italy, Germany, Austria, and so on, it did exist. Concerts, operas, etc, were popular affairs, at least from middle class and above.

And in the 19th century and early 20th century, many illiterate people could also follow popular "literate" tunes, and sing arias and such.

>The life of music is based not so much on those who want to listen, but on those who want to play and sing. Public concerts are a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of mankind, dating largely from the latter half of the eighteenth century.

He got it backwards. Public music, in festivals, churches, rituals, celebrations and so on, was the norm throughout history. And folk musicians has been a job since forever - even in rural areas. Here in Southern Europe, for example, its a tradition lost in time...
I also don't see what's innovation to do with customer support. Are you trying to say that one can only be innovative when offering shitty customer support? Or that the innovation IS the shitty customer support? I'm confused.
Data's Limits and the Judgment Gap
I wish I could use Camo. But my company doesn't allow third party software without admin approval. Makes the process of installing Camo substantially more obnoxious.
My kids don't get the password/pin to any machine that has internet access. When we log them in, they must be within view of others at all times. They don't use computers recreationaly most days a week.

Kids don't need computers. The internet is a cesspool filled with dysentary. They'll have to learn to navigate the cesspool someday, just like they need to learn to avoid heroin, but you don't need to teach your 4 year old not to seek out good fruit of the opium poppy. Some lessons can and should be delayed.
Declarative code. CSS is better than YAML for describing a desired state.
Everyone should become an HTML expert (2021)
A protostellar disk found in Milky Way's center – Tech Explorist
It’s on the same level to me as grandma shocked that we can send videos over text.
Try loading it on a 2G (2 bars = 128kbits per second — those are bits not bytes) connection. It loads almost instantly with no fuss. Now try loading virtually any site on the same, if it ever loads at all without timing out, you’ll be waiting over 10 minutes.
Diem was shutdown by Meta. It was previously Libra from Facebook.
You can probably do an in-kind transfer (see [0] and the 4th FAQ at [1]) to another brokerage with no capital gains hit because you’re not actually selling the asset.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kind-transfer-134617847.html
[1] https://investor.vanguard.com/account-transfer/other-transfe...
A couple of years ago I wondered if any chocolate was made from EU-grown cacao, since French Guiana in South America is part of the EU. Wasn't really able to find any.

Some asylum seekers go to French Guiana hoping to get to France that way. It's not an easy option - https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/28188/french-guiana-a-n... and https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/photo-feature/2021/2/3/fr... . ("Rent is high, and most food and basic necessities are imported from Europe, at a price.")

Not easy reads.
> Assuming That The Road Network Is A Connected Graph

This is a really interesting issue in routing problems. Given the start and end coordinates, the temptation is to "snap" them to the closest edge of the road network. Of course, when presented with real world data, one or both coordinates might unintentionally be close to a road that's part of a closed circuit (think race track or airport runway), or within a weight-limited set of roads that the vehicle cannot access etc... . So before running any kind of search algorithm, you have to have a pre-processing step that figures out the transitable component of the road network for that vehicle, and snap the coordinates to the closest edge on that component.
Yes, I'm restating (1). That's why my remark was introduced with the phrase "The argument was [...]". In particular, I was trying to rationalise the dumb "iron bar" example as a justification for (1).

I don't think you addressed anything; you just flatly denied (1), without offering any reasoning. In particular, you don't seem to have tried to understand the author's attempt to justify (1) using iron bars.

For my part, I'm not sure about (1). As far as I can see, there's a steady flow of people discovering that some X is a Turing-complete language, when X wasn't actually even meant to be a language at all. So it seems that some configuration of stuff is a computer IFF (a) it is capable of doing computation, and (b) someone is willing to consider it as a computer. Four odd socks could be considered a computer, by someone who was using them as a 4-bit adder.
> Welcome to Move, a next generation language for secure, sandboxed, and formally verified programming.

I didn't see anything about formal verification in the rest of the documentation. Does it have dependent types? Does it have a model checker? Does it have anything that would allow me to verify mathematical properties of my code?
The foam is a very good indicator when you did not rinse enough, I actually consider it a feature.
Diem was shut down, but a bunch of the same people are trying to keep the project alive as a separate company.

https://aptos.dev/guides/move
I think Pachyderm[0] is exactly what you're describing.

[0]:https://www.pachyderm.com
You definitely have more power, you're right. With great power comes also great responsibility, which wasn't there before. Example: instead of the experienced DB guy who was checking the logs to tell you exactly which query goes too slow and what you could do on your side to improve it (and do things on his side to scale the DB better), now you must build the knowledge to do all this properly by yourself.
You see a lot of the "see no data, hear no data" in the pharma industry.

Mandatory reporting and investigation for adverse event reports means all sorts of loopholes are jumped through to avoid finding out about them.

It's messed up.
The realization of measurement induced quantum phases on a trapped-ion computer
Yes, that makes sense, thanks for the answer.
Not having users is a strong feedback on your product.

Finding users is a the priority.

It is hard painful work.

Good luck.
Thanks for the detailed answer, this is very useful.
I have to admit, as useful as some of these extension specs may be, it makes me feel like the RISC part of RISC-V is slowly falling by the wayside.
"If a company was found guilty of antitrust violation in a state court, it would have to obey the judgment, even if it had been found not guilty in other states. So, the Buck-Lee bill could result in a single state judge overriding the decisions of all other state and federal judges."

This is true, but is already the case under the existing "separate sovereign doctrine" which holds (generally) that prosecutions in different states (or in state and federal courts) do not run afoul of the Constitution's double jeopardy clause.
Decades of neglect: Fern Hollow Bridge - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interactive
Although the newer HTTP protocols have ALPN names like h2 and h3, the older ones are named http/0.9, http/1.0 and http/1.1
> a preexisting common phrase

You mean like, "kick the bucket"?
One would think you would develop lisp programs on a lisp machine.
Yes and no.

You certainly need to have people validating incoming blocks, and currently you need to have at least some nodes archiving all the data if you want to be able to reconstruct the whole history. But there is a lot of research going on in regards to state pruning, which would let nodes discard parts of the chain that are not interesting.
Latest draft expired more than a year ago?