skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Vestager reportedly said at a news conference that "there are players who generate a lot of traffic that then enables their business but who have not been contributing actually to enable that traffic."

Oh, they get bandwidth for free? And consumers who connect to them also get bandwidth for free? Sign me up!
> Just to be clear, the tree is found in Dalarna in Sweden

They point it out in the introduction: "discovered a tree up on Fulufjället – in Sweden just east of Trysil municipality in Norway" also it says "near the Norwegian-Swedish border" in the headline.
I am not super familiar with the Rust syntax, but simply glancing over it made me puke.

How is that considered good design?

It seems even worse than C++ nightmarish Boost/templates meta-programming.

Powerful, maybe, but what about readable?
I seriously suggest finding a therapist. The fact that there are so many boxes that you haven't opened makes this hoarding. Don't make it unnecessarily hard on yourself. A therapist will help you through this.
Person is lazier - it doesn't even maintain the acronym. Perhaps if you'd suggested Malefactor in the Middle it would have been a more convincing argument? In general I don't consider 'monster' to be childish - it's often used to refer to sexual preditors, for example. What we're seeing in this line of discussion is that language is mutable and subjective - and for that reason the author's use of words is a justified as any other.
It's honestly mad that people still believe governments should be run like for-profit corporations. Like, properly insane.
"in their DNA", it is a Google spin out after all.
Hosted on cloud services rather than self hosting a node at home or somewhere else.

> As Russo pointed out, data from Ethernodes shows that 70.5% of Ethereum nodes are running on hosted services, referring to cloud providers. This means that only 33% of these nodes are running on AWS. That means that 23% of the Ethereum network is on AWS—less than a quarter.

That was in 2020. It is now even worse as of July 2022 at 53% of these Ethereum nodes on AWS. [1] Getting more centralized on AWS.

[1] https://ethernodes.org/networkType/Hosting
I’m interested in the signed Apple 2.
Could you say a few words about internal process control and how you guys approached that? Thank you!
Ah the TX-2! That takes us back to Sutherland and the famous key frame animator, always good

Check out the IBM 2250 John Whitney is using in this 1968 video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jIv-EcX9tUs where he basically invents screensavers for an earlier foray into animation
Why don't you donate some to a museum? I'm sure they will find a space for them.
Yes this may be the way to go. My son advocates this.

I also have a real passion for analog televisions and radios. I have too many of those too.
Quite similar, yes.

I went to comments precisely to say I really wish they'd stop bringing mass Internet attention to vulnerable wonders of nature like these.
It places them in terrible danger.

The sadist with an axe is definitely a real threat as has been seen repeatedly, but even if not, the stampede of a selfie-crowd is a danger in itself for something like this.
There are ancient plants that have had life-threatening damage from suddenly having unreasonable numbers of people clinging on them for photos and wearing down the grown all the way through the roots.

I certainly don't want to see this sort of reporting just to fill space during a news drought.
Heaven forbid that Google could start a process! Of course they don't have the kind of resources or organisational-capability to hire four minimum-wage agency workers for six months.

NB: For any bots labelling my comment, please label this as SARCASM.
Ask HN: How do you use your (ultra/wide) monitor/s?
Using a single ultra widescreen or multiple 16:9 or any other ratio monitors is now common even in office spaces must people are using at least two screens.

I wonder what is the setup for different HN readers. Being in software engineering or any other line of business. Some information that can probably be helpful for future searchers and readers:

- How many screens do you have?
- What is aspect ratio of each screen?
- What is your primary use of the setup?

As description please feel free to add your best practices, routines, etc. on how you maximise the usage.
“History began July 4, 1776. Everything before that was a mistake.” - Ron Swanson
Hah, to be fair I am somewhat of a Negative Nancy from time to time ;)

I think Mercedes has a reasonably sensible game-plan as far as I know. They currently have Level-3 on some highways in Germany which is still freaking hard to achieve, but still a narrow enough scope that you might be able to pull it off.

Time will tell, my bet is its still 10+ years off.
`alert("hello")` is an expression and also a statement.

a = alert("hello"); // Assigns a to undefined

What isn't an expression? An `if` statement is not an expression.

a = if (true) alert("hello"); // Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'if'
Netflix must have gotten a killer deal.
It's actually a whitelist. Vivaldi always uses the Chrome user agent, unless it's a website known to not block it, like vivaldi.com, and probably some of their partners too.
Actually it's trivial to detect if JS was completely blocked with the <noscript> tag. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/no...

And on the flip side you can trivially detect if some .js file was blocked from loading with some inline <script> tag that checks for whatever the .js file should expose.

The third case with the browser not implementing some feature is a bit more work but usually also rather easy to do.
> The other side of the zero commissions is that retail investors are almost certainly paying for larger spreads than they would otherwise get on the open market

All brokers are obligated to fill orders within the National Best Bid Offer spread. A retail trader can't get a better price on the open market.

> As an example, I once A/B tested interactive brokers vs robinhood on their execution quality.

IB sells retail orders to market makers too. This has more to do with Robinhood being awful than with PFOF being detrimental by itself.
Yeah it's hoarding.

Though a day may come where I might find life is at the right point to create a little computer museum. Maybe.
> When you selected Martin Luther as your mental leader

That's not what I got from the post at all. Historically Martin Luther is extremely significant, and as that's as far as I can see why OP referenced him. And frankly, it's not very useful to apply modern norms to historical figures. I get the same vibe from your post as "Did you know Thomas Jefferson owned slaves? And raped Sally Heming? Clearly it was non-consensual because of their master-slave relationship."
It’s an embedded version of Jitsi Meet.
Icons are ambiguous. Everybody violates expectations about what an image does. The older UIs had text. More than that, settings was a folder just like every other folder, so you knew what would happen if you clicked on particular section.

Things were fairly unified, even though the standards didn't integrate everything. You knew what would open a new dropdown, and what would open a new window, at a glance. There was no need of any implicit knowledge.
It depends when in the day. I sleep far better on days when I do intense exercise. But only if it’s not within 4 hours before I go to sleep. If I exercise close to bed time then I might not get to sleep until early morning.
Ha ha yes they're probably my most valuable machines - I have two of them. They're the ones I'm most likely to keep I think.
Web animations should be inside

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {

}
Tissue or my shirt. It’s that simple.
I was born and bred in the land of the Bard and yet I also mislabelled roughly the same 30% that they did. In my opinion that was mostly caused by the lack of context (eg, 'Traps')

As an example of the above, I assumed the 'traps' one meant "his mouth is so big that it shuts out the sun" (aka an insult) since to 'Shut your Trap' means to shut your mouth/ stop talking. Once there was a body-building context, I worked out that it was a reference to a person's trapezoid muscles and therefore the sentiment was (most likely) Positive rather than the Negative/Confrontational/Sarcasm label that I would have first assigned it.

There are similar examples but that gives a rough idea about why context is important for sentiment data-set labelling.

But - #1 In a Mechanical-Turk setup - who has time to scan through paragraphs and
#2 How far back to you go to get the full picture?

I don't think you can so why not do it by hiring a temp for an in-house two week gig? Cheaper and you can directly monitor their performance. Win-Win
When I did a summer holiday job during my A-levels, people talked about hourly rates and got paid weekly; when I was at Aberystwyth at the end of my degree, I remember some local employment scheme that listed pay per week; I think the job contracts after I graduated and before I moved country were usually listing annual pay, but I can't remember. Now I'm in Berlin, discussion is mixed between monthly and annually.
Unless they're completely plain lenses the heat could still ruin the oleophobic and anti-reflective coatings.
Or find a museum with nice people who know what they are doing and are looking for this. Gift or sell to them or borrow it to them (I don’t know the english word) like collectors do with paintings to museums. I have 1000s of vintage computers myself and different places are showing and keeping them. Right temperature etc and fixing them when broken and having many people who can see and try (some of) them. I kept 20 of them to play with which I had many doubles of anyway; MSX, c64, 2600, zx spectrum, Amiga and Atari st.

If you decide to sell; I am interested.
Yep, plus they can propose the same thing (stuff like this, or one of the many attempts to stop e2e encryption) many many times, and they only need for it to pass once, to make "going back" really hard.
> Ads, trackers and internal tools that somehow I have to contribute my data to, and their accompanying libraries EASILY make up 70% of all JS.

Citation needed. Literally 100% of the JS code i've written over the past 24 years has been 100% free of "ads, trackers, and internal tools that somehow users have to contributor their data to."
I thought Cloudflare had a deliberately manual (and therefore more secure but also more expensive and slower) process for registering domains. Has that changed?
> The author likes the 2021 US edition more

Do you know why? I thoroughly enjoyed the older UK version.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-warning-from-australias-power...

Australia is the poster child of what not to do.
Wasn't that redeemable for metals in 1934?
Its not bunk. People are comparing two widely different things and not understanding the difference.

The price of $150 is capacity of a battery. If i want a battery that can store 4 kwh i pay $600.

The other number referencing $55/MWh is referencing levelized cost of storage.
I have a a MWh but instead of using it right now i store it for 4 hours.
Now this MWh costs its initial price + $55.

Apply this example to a KWh where i would pay $0.1 for it if i used it right now
if i want to store it for 4 hours and use it later i have to add $55/1000
to the price or about $0.055.
So a directly used KWh would cost me $0.1. One stored for 4 hours would cost me
$0.15.

Hope that makes sense and explains these different numbers.
This is just some half baked fiction. Utopian socialism because communism isn't there? Communism doesn't exist because...

I honestly think if we depended on trees that much, we'd just end up with less trees. Not with solar panels.
Actually the article mentions, that solar is running at 40% capacity on average (according to industry data)

And it's STILL cheaper than nuclear watt for watt.

That being said, I think nuclear power is a necessary part of a sustainable energy mix, because it is much easier to satisfy ground load with it, and you don't have storage issues. (But this article is stupid at best and disingenuous at worst)
Speaking of registars, what does HN recommend?

I was a happy namecheap user until they decided to go all political against Russian citizens. I am unsure as to what service I should migrate to.
Who proposed the "something bad"?
Yes if there was a really great museum I trusted this might be something I'd consider. Here in Australia there's not much in the way of technology museums. There's Powerhouse, but I don't know if they would care much about such a collection.
This leaker wasn't motivated by idealism, he was just a dickhead trying to get back at his employer.
I like easydns.
What storage? What tech? How would you scale up?
You see, it's easy just to write things down and live in a dream that's enough to solve problems. But actually it's not.
The Nuclear Accidents at Chalk River
The atorable-loader works with your webpack build or other builds. I also built a react component that helps in using the torrents on a webpage.

Atorable resolves the targeted import/require() of a javascript file into a Webtorrent magnet uri. During the build the target file and torrent file are emitted in the build or stored externally via Atorable API (other builds). The emitted and stored files act as the seeds for the torrent.

Webpack: https://www.npmjs.com/package/atorable-loader

React: https://www.npmjs.com/package/atorable-react

Atorable: https://www.atorable.com

Cheers,

Serge
I would say deep optimizations in every aspect of the data cycle. From storing to querying data is heavily optimized. I recall an online meetup where a 10ms gain after a patch was huge celebrated. That kind of things compound over and over and make a really fast data platform for that use cases.
Sure.

1) the pay was $100k, much less than i was previously making. Made me change my spending habits and reduced my quality of life
2) the office was depressing and dark
3) the ability to socialize at my office was greatly diminished due to a small team. I'm on the same wavelength as 10% of ppl so if there are only 20ppl at a company its slim pickings especially since most people are working from home.
4) I stopped believing in the product pretty quickly after joining as I learned more about it and the competitive landscape. Belief in the product was the only thing keeping me there and once that was dead i had no reason to stay
5) the CEO turned out to be an idiot and i did not want to put my future in his hands.

If you can work at a FAANG-like company it's a REALLY good deal. A startup can't offer the same perks, security, work-life-balance and freedom that FAANG can.

My new thinking is that if you are unhappy working on something, switching to something else that is similar is only a temporary fix. Maybe switching to really different career that helps other people will provide a long term solution, but i doubt it. Most likely the issue is your attitude, perspective and personality.

What are you really craving? What emotional state are you craving that you are not getting? Excitement, Love, Fame, Appreciation? Dig in and think if you really will be able to get that state sustainably at a different place.

You want changes in order to change your emotional state but what you really need to do is learn how to control your emotional state. That is what you should be working on.

But maybe don't listen to me, I have not figured it out yet, I am still not happy :)
I didn't have anything like a collection myself, but I did own an Amiga 500 and breadbin C64. I sold them, for lack of time to actually use them.

I sometimes regret selling the 500.
Really common occurrence with companies that find success by partnering with an IP they don't own.

They find success, then they try another spin of the wheel spreading out to another IP they don't own, convincing themselves that just because that IP has as much or even greater reach that the same thing will be replicated again and that the road to success is just capturing more and more markets by working with more IPs.

By the time their second partnership product is out, which probably was a lot more expensive to develop than the first, they probably already have a 3rd in the pipeline. Often this second product is received much worse than the first and the hope that "Harry Potter's market is X big compared to Pokemon so we're due to have a revenue of X from it" is completely crushed and the product is a fraction of the success of the last, this is where things start to go pear shaped, many companies at this point make the mistake of doubling down on even more IP partnership products to try and build up the revenue but the returns are all diminishing and at the end of the day you don't truly own your products and are stuck paying out large percentages to IP holders.

I worked in a startup in a field where every single one of our competitors and the company I worked at fell into this trap and maybe 1/4th made it out the other side.

I see they may have now figured out its a bad idea but only after what seems like 7 spins of the wheel (Pokemon, Harry Potter, Minecraft, Catan, Transformers, Pikmin, NBA) with diminishing returns. Because now they're developing their own IP which looks to be a Pokemon clone. This wont work out either really because their main customer base are not with them because they're Niantic, they're with them because of Pokemon so bootleg pokemon wont cut it.

Now as a thought exercise lets imagine if all those years ago they hadn't thought "Let's bring the Pokemon IP to the real world and smartphones and piggyback to success off it" and instead thought "Nintendo hasn't seen the potential of a Pokemon smartphone GPS game and have no presence on these platforms. Let's build the game that will be Pokemon for the next generation with this first mover advantage" and had Peridot as their second game, not their 10th".

Might not have done the numbers Pokemon Go did, but they'd own it completely, own the merchandising rights to it completely and over time you'd have a generation who grew up thinking "Pokemon? oh that's like Peridot isn't it"
Fair enough. I never managed to work out how to set an alarm on my dumb phones.
Meh, google and MS still do a lot of bad stuff, and forcing a browser is miniscule compared to all the personal data of EU users that they still gather.

USB-C was somewhat better, but usb cables, be it micro, C or lightning are cheap, and light (not a lot of waste)... if they mandated user replacable batteries (the thing that usually fails first on a phone and is a pain to replace), the situation would be a lot better, from a consumer and also ecological standpoint.
I like gandi.net but have no idea of their political stance re Russian citizens
I was wondering how you made that gif and looking for an option on the UI to automatically export one, but then I realized you are OP. That would be a cool feature to add.
it's curious there is no available c6a.metal today in eu-west-2, I would say last week there were available in this region.
> I really miss Windows 95/98 era UIs. They were so much more practical and less noisy than current generation UIs.

This. I miss the practicality of these designs. It feels like designers today make changes to justify having work to do to maintain their jobs, and don't actually care about user experience, and in fact many are actively user hostile (see 'dark patterns').
Ask HN: Can you help me find an intersting article about system thinking
Hello HN, I cannot find this interesting article about system thinking/theory I read. I'm pretty sure I had found it on hacker news.

What I remember is that it made the example of a village as a system, and the max population the village could reach by foraging in a certain area. It was very long and there were lots of images illustrating the concepts. Searching systems thinking/theory on algolia didn't help. If you help me finding it back I would be very grateful.
The message is clear enough. It's intended for people who don't know much. Not people who mess with the browser features.
The Blockchain in a Historical Perspective
Going back to ancient Sumer and looking at how ledgers got updated before the blockchain. Remember the blockchain is a shared ledger and related systems have a deep history.
> In favor of selling them I would probably get maybe a number of thousand dollars which would help buy a house

Prepping them for sale will be real work; which you sound like you have enough of already. If you believe their value to be high and it turns out no one will bid anything like that much on them, you may become discouraged and more attached to them.

It may be worth turning of the stack of "to be disposed of" to someone else for selling or etc and ignoring the details as they can only lead to distress.
>> Perl6\Raku has first class support for BNF grammars built right into the language.
> Why would you want that? What benefit is there over having parsers available as library code?

Because in Raku, grammars are really classes. So you can actually use roles and inheritance to build your grammar. And at the lower level in Raku, rules, tokens and regexes are just executable code (method on the grammar), so you can wrap them if need be. And they have all of the optimization opportunities (such as inlining) as all of the other executable code.
But clearly the author of the article is not.
They find divisions between us that won't be reconciled, then tell us they'll deal with the people we don't like. Democracy has pathologies that people don't appreciate, especially at a national level.
Where in Australia are you? (Roughly)
why?

I'm just curious (I do not see any bad event in wikipedia: am I missing something?)
> Remember we all mostly moved to Google because they were the only ones who could actually deal with spam, gaming, and the more sophisticated attacks at scale.

No, we moved to google because they provided three orders of magnitude more storage than other free mail providers. Also, the interface was slick and fast.

Spam is an overrated problem - it doesn't take much time at all look over a dozen or so mail subjects a day to determinine if they are legitimate. Scammers are a problem for the more vulnerable but Google is never going to block all of their own kind either.
You've only quoted half of what you're replying to. You can get the solar, and the wind, and the storage, all for less than the cost of building nuclear once accounting for cost overruns.

It's also with noting that nuclear has a higher capacity factor, but it's not 100%.
Keep, sell, or donate the collection. But please, don't throw all that stuff away. Although I lived the personal computer revolution, I'm just getting started with retrocomputing and I realize more than ever how valuable that stuff is.
Google AI Developed a Language Model to Solve Quantitative Reasoning Problems
And in Finland you can replace sun and wind by hydro.
out of interest, did you consider a SPAC at any point and if so, what were the reasons for/against?

For people (like me) with a very negative perception of SPACs (a vehicle through which a company that can’t go public the “proper” way goes public) it would be very interesting to hear whether you weighed up the relative benefits of IPO vs. SPAC, or if it was obvious to you that an IPO was the right way to go from the start.

Thanks!
I don't delete anything in those tables, however I do one update on 9/10 of the rows, at least.

I seem to remember there was a way to reorder rows in a table, maybe that could be useful.
Agreed. Conflating nuclear with renewable into 'zero carbon' is wrong
Many of us will be dead by then, or otherwise mentally incapable of understanding any of the code