skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something interesting about to happen. On July 6th, Otherside, the Bored Ape Yacht Club's metaverse, will have a load test. Everybody who bought NFTs for land in their metaverse gets to try to log in. The whole system is supposed to go live in mid-July.

Yuga Labs outsourced their metaverse to Animoca Brands and Improbable. Improbable has been working on scaling technology for very large multiplayer games for years.
There have been working games (Worlds Adrift, Scavengers) using their technology. It does seem to work,
although game devs say it's a pain to use.

But it's very expensive to run, because it requires a lot of servers and large amounts of communication between them to coordinate a big world with tens of thousands of players in one space. Originally it had to be run on Google's "cloud", and the game operator paid for every event that went to the servers. Three indy free to play games, and one rather nice-looking world (Nostos) from China, went live, got users, and went broke. Lesson: free to play not compatible with the server cost of this approach.

Otherside/BAYC is all people with lots of spending money. They all paid at least US$3000 to get in. Some paid much more. None of that "inclusive" stuff. So they've paid for the operating cost.

It's extroverted people; BAYC runs raves for them. It's people into FOMO. That's a very attractive customer pool to advertisers.
It’s all layers of abstraction, right? While it’s good to have a basic understanding of how the whole stack works, it’s also a feature and a goal of those building the lower levels to enable others to operate at higher levels independent of that knowledge.

Taking this away from software for a second, I know a hell of a lot of people skilled in their professions that have no idea exactly how their cars work but they drive them just fine.
I've only used them a few times. The main issue is bit/hole longevity.

They work well once, assuming you have a fresh bit. but if someone doesn't have a clutch set on the drill, then you tend to get subtle damage pretty quick.
"Oh, that? We just turn the radio up and it doesn't bother us."
Could you volunteer any of your time to help an organization that does something that is important to you? If you can, I would recommend connecting to a non-profit or public benefit organization and seeing if they have needs that you can fill, even on a limited time basis. If possible, try and do this in-person, so that you can see the fruits of your work, and the witness the appreciation of those who receive it.

Volunteering to help others has several benefits; You will have a tangible and meaningful impact on others; You will see that your skills are useful, and you are capable of employing them; You will form real human connections with other people in a context different than the one you're currently experiencing.

Another outcome of helping other people is that you will form a network people who know about you and what you can do. It's possible to use that network to earn a modest living, doing side jobs and small contracts. This is not the end-game of volunteering, that is still the help you provide to others, but it's a nice side-effect anyways.

Since you are someone with technology skills, I can tell you that there are many non-profit organizations who need a little bit of tech help, or a lot of tech help, and cannot find someone to do the things they need for nothing, or a even a reasonable amount of money. Don't be afraid to work for free, the thanks you will get are more than worth it.

There's a talk by Sandie Metz that I've shared with a lot of people called "Madame Sandie tells your future"[0] and I would give that a watch, it's quite inspirational and may help you to shift your perspective in a way that helps.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOM5_V5jLAs&t=216s
The comparison is not the way you'd expect. Index j goes past index i, but the comparison doesn't change. What you propose is a condition more like

if ((a[i] < a[j]) != (i < j)) swap(a, i, j) ;

Which obviously works.

The surprising algorithm sorts even though it swaps elements that are already ordered.
This native english speaker thanks you. Never heard "trip balls".
React components built as div soup may actually be worse for accessibility than thoughtfully written no-JS HTML.
I'm maybe biased but here's Reuters [1] in 2021 claiming it's Stockholm, Sweden.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-sweden-became-s....
The Stallman copypasta kind of explains this verbatim:

> I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

> Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

> There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
We do not buy your* books to access them: we buy them with the exact purpose to buy them.

*In general, so quite possibly also yours.
> Or, read what Stratfor (if you have a subscription) has been predicting for a decade now: Germany's slow decline, to be replaced as Europe's power center by Poland.

As a Pole, I cannot help but laugh at that. Why would that ever be the case?
All the Ns are just the opposites.
Except it's not MVC.
Isn’t the “master branch” in git analogous to the “master copy” in other industries? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a reference to a “slave” branch in git.

If that’s the case, should we really be limping it into the current master/slave renaming zeitgeist? If so, then should we not talk of mastery at all, and why? It seems to be a fairly precise and useful term.
Fascinating. My white bread daughter who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains used the term the other day with me on the phone so I know it's arrived

https://www.amazon.com/Juba-Jive-Dictionary-African-American...
Curious what if any funding models would have helped you achieve this outcome? I suspect although I could be wrong, that a small amount of venture capital prices at a reasonable SMB rate would enable many more successful small SaaS firms.

It’s a shame that in software we must always “go big” or go home. Particularly when much of the world runs on broken or nonexistent software.
> younger people, especially in developed nations, are drinking much less in recent years, even after the COVID-19 lockdown. [1] It's just not really fashionable anymore.

and then you link to a 2020 article that analyzes drinking DURING lockdown. Well, of course it's going to be lower during lockdown in the initial phase of covid. What you've said is bloody misleading.

> Everyone I know under the age of 25 or so, and (A smaller amount of) older people I know as well who have grown out of thinking being drunk is fun, are looking at it more as a quick way to get fat and sad.

It's always binary to you people. Drinking moderately can be social and fun, but to you, it's only to get drunk and hammered and fat and sad.
> P.S. Read Brain Rules For Baby. I bought it based on a recommendation on HN a few years ago. It explains the early years using science. I recommend it to everyone.

Just ordered. Thanks for the suggestion!
Water flows down the easiest path. Make runbooks (and their maintenance) easy. This requires management buy-in to create incentives that make runbooks the easiest path.

In my experience, getting management on-board is the most difficult part since engineers will be lazy (I mean this here in a positive, efficient way) and do the easier thing.

I’ve set up runbooks on a few different teams at different companies and I’ve found some strategies that help. Feel free to pick and choose what would make sense from this list:

- Give runbooks (and on-call) time. Subtract the number of expected on-call weeks from your quarterly plan. This is where management buy-in is the most important since on the surface it impacts “throughput” or whatever metric is in vogue. As an aside, it’s unfortunate that most managers (IME) don’t track morale or operational burden as metrics…

- When an engineer is on-call they can do housekeeping, sweep runbooks, dashboards, etc. You want the on-call engineer to have time to do RCAs, and make reasonable changes in response to incidents. Downtime can be spent cleaning and updating. We’ve called out “operational improvements” during standup.

- Every alert links to a runbook. No alerts can be merged without a runbook. Dashboard, etc, are linked from the runbook. The engineer that created the system/alert might not be the first to encounter it at 3am and the person on-call should know what to do.

- Every time you get an alert, scan the runbook. Even if you are a system expert. Something may have changed or someone may have modified a process to be more automated. You could be pleasantly surprised that an alert is now easier to manage due to someone else’s operational improvements that you forgot about.

- If a runbook is wrong or out of date, fix it right then or flag it as a problem and bring it up during standup. The runbook is a part of the software “package” and issues should be treated like bugs that should be addressed.

- Do an on-call review and track the on-call engineer’s sentiment along with metrics around how many wake-ups, weekend alerts, etc. up-to-date, clear runbooks make on-call much less frustrating for systems the on all engineer didn’t directly write. It’s also a good forum for a team member feels they are taking on more of the operational upkeep.

- Call out and celebrate excellent, up to date runbooks! If you were on call and a teammate’s runbook was great and let you effectively manage an incident in a part of the system you don’t have as much experience in, let them know!

Runbook development/maintenance is a part of software development/maintenance (IMO). If someone isn’t pulling their weight with runbooks, then they aren’t doing all of their job. I see it the same as someone who only wants to work on greenfield projects. There’s some percentage of shit you need to deal with as a software engineer, operations is one of them. At least for online systems.
Funny, just yesterday I posted an in-depth comment concerning this exact topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31968100
Tribes are actually very benevolent and certainly helpful to many strangers that in their eyes seek help. There have been numerous incidents all around the world where poor tribals have come and nurture a sick stranger back to life. It is basic human nature.
If the second loop is from j = i to n, it is easy to see that it will sort in decreasing order. But notice j = 1 to n, then suddenly it will sort in increasing order
The problem is not just that the alcohol is expensive in pubs (it’s actually cheaper than a lot of European countries) but that also the alcohol in the shops is very expensive. I think that is why alcohol use has become so unpopular. Not only is it a less pleasurable drug than others, but it’s actually becoming more expensive than them, even at home
Are they both in a Russian prison?
Me neither, can't see "the obvious" reason for them not implementing this.

Apple usually trots out "privacy" or "security" when people find their software lacking in terms of usability or convenience but I can't understand why this would be an issue for them.
I expect there will be lots of surprising second order effects. Asphalt roads become uneconomical once oil refining stops producing enough bitumen waste. We're in for a wild ride.
Yes that’s true, DAI should be able to handle mass liquidations very well. MIM has, and is similar technology

If USDC exchange rate fell due to crisis of confidence, liquidations will occur fine.
Wow downvoted for trying to be encouraging? Guess I need to practice that more, I honestly intended the words compassionately.
Looks great, only question is why invent your own software when sigrok exists?
Vault of SNES manuals is a resource for fans of gaming history
There were a lot of “MVC in JavaScript” frameworks before react. I don’t think that’s really a useful description of react or of the work or idea involved.
I can imagine a number of complications here. How should delayed send work with respect to both end-to-end encryption and with network connectivity loss? Ie I can see a possible way to build this where the sending user’s device queues and sends it later, but what if that device is out of network coverage area, or battery-dead, at the requested send time? …so then we could think about doing it at the server level, but then to maintain end-to-end encryption, the message would have to be pre-encrypted; how would we handle rekeying a user? Ie if the delay send is for 24 hours from now, but one of the recipient’s keys get rotated (which afaik can happen in a couple of reasonable conditions; but others here will know more)… well, we end up with a solution that also can’t reliably deliver the message.

One thing I really appreciate about Apple Messages is just how well it works, and how little spam ever makes it in. I think the reliability of Messages is almost taken for granted… I wouldn’t want to give that reliability promise up for this sort of feature!
The article is quite repetitive so I may have missed it, but does it explain the impact on advertising as a whole? Advertising for crypto surely has taken a hit, but has this "created an advertising vacuum" or removed a very small percentage over overall ad spend, in a category that many publishers didn't want to touch anyways?
We were just looking at the screen through the kaleidoscope with the scope pressed up against the glass. It wasn't taken apart or anything. If that's dangerous than I'm doomed from all those years sitting too close to the TV, as my parents told me!
Some people (like me) are wide awake at 3AM and have work thoughts then. Others are asleep - we’re all different. I tend to use email drafts or email myself the text with a note to forward it.
Tbf OP does link to research of its own[3] by a team with "a relationship" to the app. [1] is actually what last year's submission is based on. Following the references, there's quite a number of papers on flicker-induced entoptic phenomena.

[3] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/511766v1.full
Sure it's possible. You can also program in assembly instead of Java. But you'll soon be creating your own abstraction layer, why not use one that is very thin too and battle tested by millions of users?
To “you people” doesn’t set a constructive tone.
People sometimes dismiss the Pico in comparison to an ESP32 or other ESP-based devices (even the newer Pico W, which has wireless capabilities, with Bluetooth LE potentially added via software update in the future), but I've seen Picos running as N64 flash carts, logic analyzers, signal generators, etc. in places where formerly only more expensive FPGAs or low power ARM SoCs (not on the microcontroller level) were used before. It's not punching too much above it's weight, but the PIO does seem to be a very useful feature.

I know there are still other advantages of the ESP32 (especially in some of the newer revisions, like upcoming Matter/Zigbee support built in), but I think some people are too quick to dismiss the Pico's RP2040 as overpriced compared to the alternatives.
thanks pizzabearman :)
Toronto's CN Tower has a nightly "strip" of lights that change and flow, etc. Sometimes you can detect movement, and that is because quite often it is actually showing slices of an image.

This is what it looks like when you make a stream of the lightshow. As far as I know, they never copyrighted it, and it is a super cool way to celebrate various events. For example, on Remembrance Day it shows poppies and other related images. On Canada Day, lots of Canadian images from across the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqFMbXMfS9Q
“It also isn't unusual in the cities.”

yes it is. last week i saw a homeless man follow a woman onto a packed train, scream in her face and throw her across the train, and nobody did anything. i’ll let you guess the races of the victim and the attacker. this was on the L in union square. no one cares. this country has been dying for decades and it’s almost completely dead
Taylor Ogan is very biased against Tesla, and has a strong financial interest for Tesla to fail (TSLAQ). He's purportedly long BYD.

Not saying these incidents aren't real, but I'd really really want confirm these from a reliable source.
I see that vertical sync still isn't working in my browser
That’s all solved for you, helm upgrade in ci/cd and bump of versions has been straight forward, if not snapshot rollback via Longhorn, also for DR. Accidentally deleted data => get the last snapshot, 5 minutes it’s back (except that there is of course CI/CD in place for new code + no write permissions for devs on the cluster and „sudden“ data deletion somewhat rare).

Elastic usecase is for crawling crazy amount of data and make it searchable and aggregatable and historically available, don’t know any other solution than elastic who has reasonable response times and easy-to-use access (plus we can add some application logging and APM).

> Puppet Bolt, Ansible, Chef, ...

Helm chart values.yaml and you’re all set, security + easy version bump included.
>What's a biological man? Not a Y chromosome, since they used to test Olympic athletes but found that the presence of a Y chromosome was not sufficient to identify men and women. (There are multiple genetic conditions that can cause this.) Many athletes had an unpleasant surprise at the hands of the IOC resulting in at least one suicide.

that is a non-sequitur. the conclusion doesnt follow from the premises.
> I really hope you never, ever have to live around working class people. They'll literally tear you apart.

?

> Thank god for inequality keeping these little anime dorks safe. God bless America.

??

Can you explain the point you are trying to make?

Is the problem the price of the unit? Or is it your opinion that "working class people" would tear apart the argument that the NW-A55 is a nice device?

If so, why do you think they will dislike about the device? Or which alternative will they prefer and recommend?
This statement is practically a tautology
Debunking Constructivist Teaching
Sorry, your name calling here doesn't hold up at all. How they operate directly affects my work. I onboard people to Linux and this Wayland discrepancy is an annoyance I'd rather not deal with.

What I'm doing is pretty similar to dealing with, e.g. a land developer putting up a big shopping center near my quiet neighborhood. I don't have much legal recourse here, but someone who speaks against it isn't childish.
Perhaps look for freelance gigs that are paid by the task, not the hour. Then it won't matter that you might need to take a little longer because you are dealing with the chronic pain.

Good luck
How much of a business profit comes from people getting drunk though? One serious drinker might spend as much a small group of people just enjoying a beer or two.
Startup founder fears by funding round
Bashing people trying to help is usually a reddit thing, but here we are.

This website is a text based medium. Literally the only thing that can conveyed here is information.

Books, as you are aware, can contain even more information and advice than this website.

If the person was looking for something other than information and advice, they would be looking elsewhere.
Probably not worth a full Show HN. Just get an old TV turn it on so a dead channel so you just get "snow" on the screen. Get a cheapie Kaleidoscope and put it near or up against the glass. Look through it at the CRT and enjoy the show. Helps a lot if the room is dark too.
I think I’d rather have slightly inebriated drivers than people letting their kids drive them home.
Good point! I hadn't thought of that.
I live in the UK and honestly from what I've seen at least nice beer gardens are doing great, and even many of the regular pubs aren't necessarily doing badly.

I think people do like going out for a drink (and certainly not just to get drunk), rather I think the bigger problem is that its become far too expensive for many.
>This never happened. What happened is that Democrats started to center the far-right

That's a pretty remarkable statement. Trump is the far right. Are you arguing there hasn't been a hard right shift in the GOP since Trump?

BTW, your statement that Dems falsely centered the far right is actually true in the reverse. Republicans center folks they consider "far left", like AOC and "The Gang" as representative of some sort of scary communist takeover of Democrats. This is, of course, silly on its face. They have virtually no power to drive policy in the party. And, of course, they are not communists in any case.

Add to that, Dems rejected even Bernie to nominate grandfatherly ol' Joe...the most moderate Dem around who, quaintly, still believes in bipartisanship.

Other than Bernie and The Gang, the only "far left" I've seen is so-called "Antifa", which has no membership, but magically self-assembles and appears during election cycles to scare Republican voters to the polls before mysteriously dissolving again.

Still, GOP ads feature ominous threats about the far left and communism.

I get that things tend to appear mirrored from the other side, but there are facts. On 1/6, elements of the far right, to include actual militia members, did Trump's bidding. Their ongoing affinity for one another is no coincidence. He represents their interests and they clearly know it.
I can't say what we should or shouldn't do. But I think we would be better off if we did that. Notice I said that in order to make this viable we would want to make sure to provide for everyone so that no one's livelihood is threatened. I look at it this way: digital information has value. digital information can be copied for free. therefore we can copy value for free. if we leverage this principle we can generate a whole lot of value for essentially zero cost. this distribution of value would lead to more value creation, as for example children that grow up with access to way more books are probably more likely to produce more valuable art, science, and engineering output of their own.

I think we would be better off if we do this with movies, music, games, and engineering designs like designs for medical equipment, cars, etc. most of the standard economic arguments for intellectual property restrictions are wrong and short sighted, and I have heard them all. I think this concept is well worth exploring both philosophically and in practice
What Jack Welch Got Wrong (Just About Everything)
I think that people are focusing on the time estimate just to estimate a cost, and asking what the return was. The material return.
I reckon it is against DigitalOcean's terms of service to seed copyrighted content. They forward DMCA complaints and will threaten to deactivate your account if you disregard warnings.
Managers will tell you not to worry about job security, right up until the day you get a meeting invite from HR.
I mean, the unfortunate thing is that we don't have something closer to "voting" in this space. I very much do not believe that one must be a knowledgable dev to have an expressible opinion here.
The clock app team probably had the thought to add it at 3am but couldn't schedule an iMessage to remind their teammates to implement it.