skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also particularly annoying that the gift was a bouquet of flowers. If the woman wants to enjoy her gift, she needs to get a vase, go home ASAP, immediately put the flowers in water, and then keep taking care of them for the next several days. That's all fine if you're expecting it, but really annoying if it's an inconvenient time.
I recently watched a german documentary "Das geheime Leben der Bäume" [1] where they visit this exact tree. Highly recommend it.
The documentary is based on a novel of the same name by the author Peter Wohlleben [2].

[1]: https://www.3sat.de/film/dokumentarfilm/das-geheime-leben-de...

[2]: https://www.amazon.de/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate-Discover...
How would they have lost money, other than management fees, if none of it was invested?
MacBook Air (M2) Review: Thinner, Better, More Expensive
Regarding (1), the real statement here is, "many of us were there at the start of the Web, it was evident that it was going to change the world, and it was usable from the start." And it's mostly about the the Web (but you may include things like The Well, which were promising from the start.) The point is really about immediately apparent use. And, if you're going to date the Web back to the humble beginnings of ARPANET in the early 1970s, you've to include hashes published in the NYT classifieds in the 1970s/1980s for crypto, as well.

Regarding (2), why not have a functional implementation right from the beginning? (Analogously, why have a really bad OS fixed by the application layer?)

The point in (3) is really about availability and value in times of crisis. Gold is already mined, as you hold it.
You mean like this?

https://reneweconomy.com.au/queensland-to-add-more-than-a-do...

> “The new batteries will be spread across major centres in regional Queensland near communities that have significant rooftop solar generation because we know that’s where they will have the greatest overall benefit.

> “The network of the future will not only need to move electricity from where it is generated to where it’s going to be used, but also to when it’s consumed.”

And sure, utilities can buy power from consumers at a lower cost than they charge for power, but that only works until batteries decline to a cost point where consumers simply replace their utilities with batteries. Is that today? Not yet! But with the amount of battery manufacturing capacity spooling up for EVs and utility scale storage, that day will arrive.
> Even if it did, I don't see what modern tech corps have to do with anything - they didn't build the internet. Also, on age, the early internet dates back to the 60s and was still considered "early" 30+ years later.

I think the tech companies are relevant because they pivoted to find useful applications on top of that basic infrastructure, which the hundreds of blockchain companies have failed to do. AOL made millions even even people were held up by dialup and other limitations, for example, because things like chat were popular and low bandwidth.

The early internet comparisons are complicated by the history of computing – adoption was slow when computers filled a large room and cost millions, for example - but I think that has a similar story. Even when a PC cost as much as a car and you were looking at 300 bps modems on phone lines billed by the hour, people found things worth paying for and there were profitable companies with fairly large subscriber bases by the late 1970s. There were people who met online and were grandparents before smartphones became common!

In contrast, blockchains were globally available on day one with no constraints other than their design limitations. There’s no problem which you could point to like a telecom monopoly, the severe hardware limitations prior to the mid-90s, etc. which would keep popular usage low.
I wasn't asking for your opinion or your judgement.
If it's not organized, it's not a collection, just a pile.

I collected classic video games for a while. After a while, I realized I'd be happier if I focused on one area (Atari). Eventually, I wasn't playing or displaying the consoles or games, so I got rid of all of it except for one nice 2800 console and a couple of the funnest games which I wanted to show my kids.

Somebody else got to enjoy the stuff that was just sitting in my boxes. No regrets.
> in Java when a feature sucks, we just say it sucks. Even the architect that approved it will say it sucks.

Yup isn’t that the truth. I like Rust but this aspect is very off putting, the author is one of the worst offenders.

It reminds me a lot of the Scala community where the detractor was always just not smart enough to understand their perfect abstraction.
I am not aware of a context where virtue signaling would be a good practice or behavior.
> Why would housing become unaffordable if the state intervenes? The purpose is precisely to control affordability.

Because intended purpose differs from actual outcome, and such regulation almost always creates different consequences.

Best intentions pave the road to hell.

> Prices are controlled for social housing, and flexing supply allows you to influence the free market prices.

When you control prices, you destroy investment in supply.
I played Pokemon Go daily throughout the pandemic as a way to get out of the house and get some exercise. I also quit a few months ago as the walking habit has stuck without the need for any other incentive.
The successor of the 800 is the Amiga, not the ST. The architecture between them is very similar as Jay Miner designed both of their chipsets. The ST was designed by the designer of the Commodore 64, Shiraz Shivji , so the ST is its successor.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_Shivji
Searching Images by Their Color Profile
Money? It's all about love and gratitude, Harrison clearly isn't interested in such shallow things as money.
It never thought HN was down last week, either.
I have recently checked and it's absolutely legal to film someone in public. You're just not allowed to diffuse it.
These properties aren't unique, they can be achieved using regular asymmetric cryptography. For like, 45 years now.
One thing made by Prot that has made a big difference to me is his high-contrast light theme Modus Operandi, which has made working on my laptop on Emacs outside in bright sunlight a cinch. It's comprehensive in terms of the modes it supports, and he chose colours based on WCAG AAA standards. Like Denote, it's excellently documented. Highly recommended.

https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes
i didn't say personal?
I recommend the house decaf from Devicion or Linea. I’ve tried every high end decaf on the market and those are the winners so far
Yes, I do. My father dragged me to one when I was 16 because he thought it was time I "became a man". I spent half an hour Holden Caulfielding the poor woman instead.
why the hell does a TikToker need a spokesperson at all? ego boost?
Thank you for the reply. I'll def poke my head around in the things you pointed to, not that I would be able to understand much.

I'll be frank: I don't necessarily see how owning digital artifacts is what younger folks are seeking, but I'm not entirely closed off to this being the cause of the potential sea change. Just because I don't see it/ get it right now doesn't mean it isn't massively appealing to people if given the right tools and platforms.

Perhaps I'm only seeing things cynically, but that level of granular ownership seems like it could become kinda tiresome, restrictive, and limiting (in the sense of who would be able to see and engage with what you decide to share and put out there). But I fully admit I'm at a loss for imagination right now, and many things I thought seemed silly, even with Web 2.0 stuff, I'm now using quite frequently.
I honestly dislike it so much that social media normalized filming or making pictures of random people (in the "they are the (sole) motive" way, not random crowds) and publishing it without their permission. Doesn't help that everyone always has an unsuspicious camera on them. :/
I, too, use namecheap. In fairness I’m not as sophisticated as at least 95% of people on hacker news but it has certainly met all of my needs for the half dozen sites and 2 dozen domains I own
A notebook is a human's best friend
The evolution of plant defense mechanisms is so fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
You should have.
> If you can write, read, and query a JSON document using an API in your application, it's literally that simple

You could say that of Elasticsearch or Mongo, too. And it might be technically true, but you haven't scratched the surface of mappings, design, limitations, etc.

You can dump a bunch of data into Dynamo very easily, but what about getting data via secondary indices when you can't get your data with the views you've built without scanning? How do you use partition keys in it? And so on.
> and seem to have “used up” all the decent content

What does this mean? Instagram is used for current content.
Animation is often cool: The first time I use it.

After that, it becomes quite tiresome.

I tend to use animations in my work, but only as half-second fade transitions, and whatnot. Makes the user experience smoother, and doesn't result in "twitchy screen fatigue."

It's also not so simple to implement, by hand. Many frameworks have them embedded, so you get them for free, but I write native, so I often need to construct them, manually.
US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth
I'll give you two use cases that I use for DynamoDB, where otherwise I'm primarily a MySQL shop

1) Simple: I have a system that constantly records and stores 30 minute MP3 files of audio streams (1000's of them) in S3. We write the referencing metadata to a table in DynamoDB where users can query by date/time. Given the sheer amount of items (hundreds of millions), we saw far worse performance vs. cost on MySQL vs Dynamo.

2) Complex: I have a system that ingests thousands of tiny MP3 files a minute into S3 and writes the associated metadata to DynamoDB. DynamoDB then has a stream associated with it that runs a lambda to consolidate statistics to another table and stream that metadata to clients via other lambdas or data streams.

Those are two great use cases where we saw better usage patterns with Dynamo vs MySQL.
I meant it's a useful and descriptive term. I abhor the behavior.
In the US you'd need permission to film the location, and without a release you could be stopped from using the video commercially (social media can count as commercial use if the uploader profits from views)

This can cover public places too, some localities require a permit to film a public place for commercial use.
For explicitness & searchability, commenting with the title of this talk, which is indeed excellent, not limited to DynamoDB, and which was kind of a revelation after years of using DynamoDB suboptimally:

Rick Houlihan - AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEPXoXVf2k

It should be watched along with reading the associated doc: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...
Those TV shows asked for written consent afterwards and didn't (usually, sure there are exceptions over all those years) air footage without it. Wouodn't kill influencers and the like to do same would it?
Read the book "The E-Myth Revisited" before you decide to go solo. You might be having an entrepreneurial seizure; it's not necessarily a bad thing, but you might prefer to be better prepared for what happens after that.
I kind of think this is a dig bug -- the man page indicates you can specify `name type class queryopt` in an unargumented style, but when using IN in this fashion against `ch` it does not work correctly (testing on Debian 11 stable). Compare these 4 sets of results:

dig ch NS IN +short
dig -q ch -t NS -c IN +short
dig uk NS IN +short
dig -q uk -t NS -c IN +short

Only when using the first form do you get a comment ";; Warning, extra class option" and the incorrect results. So even when using the full pattern of un-argumented options as outlined in the man page, it fails to work as expected specifically for ch.
I'm a well paid software eng in nyc and I have a 30-45 minute commute to work, I think the people you're talking about are already commuting 60-90 minutes if they work in desirable Manhattan neighborhoods. But I agree with your message.
A cat is fine, too. Two are even better.
This is simpler, with no database program necessary.
I think the "magic link" (a.k.a passwordless) method of authentication is actually great for the average user, particularly as many (most?) of them will be on mobile, where passwords are an absolutely pain. They're also useful as you don't have to use email, you can instead send out the link via SMS, WhatsApp etc. which can drive people to mobile (if that's what you want).

That said, here on HN you will probably get a different response, as people here are generally power-users and much more privacy and security aware (not a bad thing). There was a good discussion on this yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32080540

I'd be interested to hear the security argument for or against magic links.
Seconding Red Notice, great book!
Honestly, to me, it sounds like you already know the answer - get rid of most of them. Keep a handful that bring you particular joy.

I moved country a few years ago and in doing so got rid of the majority of my possessions - at roughly the same time as clearing my late parents' house and getting rid of most of their posessions. It was all much more hurried than I would have liked, but even so, it's somewhat freeing to not have the responsibility for so much ... stuff ... anymore.

Amongst the things I got rid of were all the 'projects' that I had never started. Getting rid of those and accepting that they weren't going to happen was the most freeing of all.

I still have plenty of stuff and unstarted projects, but the overall burden is so much less.

Finally, I'll note that I think most of the 70s, 80s, and 90s microcomputers that are not especially esoteric now are going to remain available at somewhat reasonable prices during our lifetimes.

Just my 2 cents from a fellow pack-rat.
Maybe that's a new trend! Like punching scary clowns and scare pranksters...
Addicts take time to heal after quitting for months. So minutes or hours do not that matter!
How simple. Have any suggestions for implementation?
Hacker News is a web app.
When I look for past conflicts between organizations I typically use the verb "slammed" in my searches.
I keep hearing the notion that we should prohibit corporations from owning residential property, and I kind of like the idea.
Except upvoted comments continue to propagate confusion over what's actually happening by omitting the root zone from example hostname queries.

While this is a fully qualified domain name:

www.example.com

This is the actual domain name:

www.example.com.

The linked article and doesn't really explain why someone should add the trailing dot to the hostname. I do: It's the name of the root DNS zone and unambiguously identifies the `dig` parameter as a hostname.
The Twitter bots are on strike?
He did give a second talk a few years later explaining how the purely cognitive aspect may be handled by ML, and the total system probably going to end up being a mix.

But his fundamental opposition to ML for things related to safety was, IMHO absolutely correct.
Ironically I was just looking at nslookup's man page[1] the other day and this bit of history is hinted at there:

class=value

Change the query class to one of:

IN
the Internet class
CH
the Chaos class
HS
the Hesiod class
ANY
wildcard

Man pages have amazing nuggets of history in them if one chooses to dig in!

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/nslookup
There are probably large differences between countries here, but for me a wire transfer would clearly be the cheaper and easier option. They don't cost anything in fees. Speed is not that great, but usually good enough.

Another option that is often very convenient is the "Lastschrift", I can simply grant a company permission to withdraw money from my account. The protections for the customer are very strong with this, I can revert any withdrawal without any reason, so this is essentially no risk for me.
Mr Beast is a game show host. He’s not giving away his own money yet everything is framed as the giant act of generosity on his part. He’s giving away money much like Bob Barker gave away kitchen sets.
>I dislike these beliefs that idealize a world with no trust or cooperation. Humans are social animals and we do our best when we work together.

I agree. Remember, cooperation and trust brought you such gems as:

The Trail of Tears
Jim Crow
Standard Oil
The Holocaust
MKULTRA
COINTELPRO
The War on Drugs
WWII internment camps
The Rwandan Genocide
The Uiyghur genocide
Systemic Human Rights abuses
Plenty of other bits and bobs of nastyness no one wants to admit to.

The problem with cooperation without strict limits, is that cooperation is the "might makes right" of our time. Network effects are a hell of a superpower, and like all superpowers, there is a responsibility to really consider whether the world truly is a better place with it. When you build these social constructs, you're putting a lot of motive power into potentially only precious few hands.

Cooperation and trust is all good when you're the one watching the local outgroup get curb stomped.

Woe be unto the ingroup that becomes the outgroup due to lack of foresight.

I like humans that aren't focusing on targeting other groups of humans.
There are even more oddities buried in some RRTypes. For example, the 'protocol' field in the DNSKEY RRType. Back when DNSSEC was still in development, the concept of sub-typing was in vogue and it was thought that RRType codes should be jealously guarded. Fast forward a couple of years and everyone realizes that there are plenty of RRType codes to go around and no one really wants to use DNSKEY for other public keys, so the 'protocol' field was basically frozen with '3' being the only value used.

A 35 year old protocol has a lot of vestigial bits, but still vital to network operations.
People have been saying that for quite some time now, but I don't see it.

Why is it so difficult to find utility with this "tech"?

As long are you are not a criminal, ownership and liquidity are not huge pain, what is the real, tangible benefit of decentralized banking?

I am not convinced that monetary transactions should be above the Law, and for them to be lawful they have to be centrally regulated in some ways.
All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV Mini Series 2011) – IMDB
This is basically a hidden cam prank.

These have been on TV for ages and as far as I know they require written consent from the victims.

If that is the case, she might have a case in court.
> I'm pretty sure I've developed this habit because as a child in the last 1970's and early 80's we could never afford a computer for many years, when it was something I wanted more than anything in the world.

I'm in the exact same boat except with retro gaming instead of retro computing. Personally I recommend giving away whatever you can to somebody who you think will really care for them. If somebody donated retro gaming stuff to me I'd cherish it for life. Some people would take stuff and just flip it to somebody who probably just wants it because it's trendy right now and will throw it away when they get bored. Part of my emotional attachment is to physically owning the stuff, but part of the attachment is to the thing itself and wanting it to be cherished the way I cherish it.

One thing that would definitely help is pulling back on future acquisitions. Now that we have jobs and our own money, unlike when we were children, it's easy to keep accumulating. But if you can find a way to re-evaluate what really brings you value now, vs what brought you value as a kid, that might tackle your problem from a different angle (preventing future stuff vs dealing with current stuff). As an example, now I'm really into data hoarding and console modding, which allows me to play games on most consoles from HDD/SD card/USB/etc. As a result, physical games are not quite as impactful to me as physical hardware like controllers or consoles, so I still go for hardware if I see it but I'm much more picky about what games I acquire now.
nit: "This morning the Bank of Canada announced a 100 basis point interest rate hike. The market was expecting 50 basis points."

The market was expecting 75 basis points. That was the consensus.

When I see this kind of thing it does make me question the rest of the information points on the article that I am not as well informed on.
"Revealed", heh
I really wish you took the time, after what appears to be a rather inflammatory comment, to reply to the folks who are very specifically questioning your argument.
I'm eager to see what nefarious things Google will do once they've mastered the art of identifying all the busses in a photo!
Please show on the S&P 500 graph where buying to sell now hasn’t been a great opportunity in the last 100 years minus the last twelve months.
What about this story that the thread is discussing? The woman in question did not appreciate being filmed, is this still an example of kindness? Not trying to argue here just understanding your thought process, because I agree with the poster you replied to.
Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest
Makes me wonder why we had to put up with DOS for so long.
And local factors--people just assume that if necessary they can drain the reservoir (or greatly lower the level) to run the turbines to cover for a lack in solar/other output, but in the US as soon as you put in a dam you'll get home owners and property owners around the newly created reservoir fighting tooth and nail to maintain high water year round for aesthetics and recreation.

There are ways to minimize this of course, like building giant storage tanks, but dammed rivers are going to (usually) dwarf man mad retention pools.
What is the rule with Cookie notices bring in a different language? Strangely, this is the first one I have come across not in English.
Smart thermostats inadvertently strain electric power grids
>They need to focus on content which people like

No kidding!
This should become a quote :)))
Last night, at peak, Ontario was generating ~140MW of wind power. Not bad.

Yesterday, all day without variation, Ontario was generating 9300-9600MW of nuclear power.

They aren't even in the same universe.

Source: https://www.ieso.ca/power-data
The average londoner doesn't live in central London.
> "I really don't want to be that guy and wade into it with a "well, actually"."

Be that guy; what's your criticism about Mr Beast's generosity? He does a lot of content which could be fake; like giving his friends $20,000, but ones which look more serious and genuine and costly include:

- Opened a "free bank" where he loaned money into six figures to local people, then surprise! it's not a loan, they can keep it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORUX1lHbOa8

- Bought everything in a supermarket and donated it to a food bank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha4tRQwKIUg

- Donated $100k to plant trees, and organised a fundraiser which raised $21M to plant 20M trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPJKxAhLw5I

- Ran a contest of TV show style challenges (endurance, falling into goop) with some of his viewers as contestents, with a million dollar prize at the end that one of them won: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ4m4zD7BBA

- Gave away three houses or free rent for a year in them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJH28ICkCdU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfv1QaRzJg8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cCpZl8euLI

- Bought every car in a car dealership and gave them away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLnjRLrvLU

- Gives his credit card to people, encouraging them to spend tens thousands of dollars on things they get to keep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYVjOfoU3uI

What's vapid or not generous enough about these for your liking?