skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try not to tie my well-being to my country. Partially this is defensive due to living in the USA, but it also is pragmatic. What is a country, anyway? Some countries of today did not exist 100 years ago. Some countries from 50 years ago do not exist today. Countries merge and split and come and go in various ways if you look at a long enough period of history. The people who live within them have ups and down in their societies, periods of well-being and periods of pain. Even aside from all that, being too tied to your country is one of the things that I see that causes hate and mistrust of other countries. We're all people, we all share many needs despite different cultures.

So I try to think bigger than my country. And smaller - I take care of my life at my home. I make sure my family has stability, and try to have safety nets in place if things get really bad with supply chain disruptions, etc.
That sounds about right, there's limited avenues for asking the file/page cache to get rid of data. It comes down to lots of suggesting to the FS cache that it's not needed, but it might linger either way.
Any MSCs for the RTC part of the Element Call?
But then STEM would have to admit that English Lit Majors didn't waste their money /s
Bitcoin is absolute garbage and in theory any critique is good, but it bothers me that half of the points in this article aren't even internally logically consistent:

> “Blockchain is just like the early internet”. No, it isn’t. Satoshi Nakamoto’s paper was published in October 2008 ... <proceeds to compare age of Bitcoin to the age of some modern tech corps>.

Nothing about the original statement is predicated on the age of the tech. 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.

> There are centralisation and technical problems with these solutions, but let’s ignore those for now, and call these systems for what they are. Second layers act as a reminder that the original networks cannot scale, and need a second network on top of the network to operate. This is an admission of failure.

If we ignore the technical problems, 2nd-layer seem like a practical solution to a problem. Why is that a failure?

(now I know that they DO have technical problems - so maybe let's talk about those specifically, instead of making weird nonsensical statements)

> “Bitcoin is digital gold”. It isn’t, gold is gold, it requires no maintenance fee, once it’s mined [...] Bitcoin [...] need to be maintained by miners using electricity [...] at least to keep the mining running.

Why is mining excluded for gold and not for Bitcoin in your analogy?

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As for my own opinions...

> Concluding, will crypto die?

This is two questions:

1. Will the crypto market die? Hopefully, though I'm less than optimistic.

2. Will blockchain tech die? Of course not. It's not very useful but it has niche applications - there's plenty of obscure tech that's kept around by enthusiasts, so I think we can be sure that even after the last cryptobro is bankrupted, there'll still be a group of geeks somewhere hacking on the blockchain for fun.
Honest thing to do would be to disclose the profits from the video and share it with her.
I don't think the solution to police brutality is to sacrifice the the privacy of an entire nation.
Locating another packrat who possibly has plenty of money is probably hard and an organization that would spend a lot of time and money to properly sort through and maybe display some of the gear even harder. It's somewhat painful to say but just because there are almost certainly people in the world who would monetarily value a bunch of obsolete stuff doesn't mean it's worth trying to track down those people.

And best case, you get a few $K for it? Probably not worth it.

That's maybe a cynical take on things but it's the conclusion I've come to.
DynamoDB usage is heavily based around correctly structuring your keys. Allowing you to do things like query sub-sets easily. This in turn means you need to know what your usage patterns will be like so you can correctly structure your keys.

God help you if you need to make major changes to this down the road.

Database Access Layer can't do this for you, that just isn't what they do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
Has to be a tight range. Some recruiters try to give a non-sensical, meaningless range where the upper bound is close to 3x the lower bound.
That’s literally what the article says.
JWST detects water vapor on hot, Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a distant star
> I've read somewhere that in the USSR paying more than 4% of your income to housing was considered criminal

Fortunately that was the only criminal activity in the shining beacon of freedom and prosperity that was the USSR.
Have to disagree on this one. Something as basic and out of the box as a migration / data backfill is not only complicated but also very expensive (both time and cost wise) on Dynamo. Not to mention all the other things that come nicely with an relational db (type checking, auto increments, uniform data)
https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2206.11192

The code listings are not formatted all that well by latex2html, but at least the prose is easier to read

Generally, lots of academic writing is done in LaTeX because it’s nice for managing references. The incentive to develop and use better tooling for this kind of writing is not really there because of the momentum of publishing in journals etc
kWh as capacity of a battery is similar to ml as capacity of a bottle.
The Semiconductor Problem
I don't think it's a generational thing, but a social media thing, and I think it looks like it's representative of "everybody" when in truth it's representative of the people who are more active on social media, which should be a small proportion of the general population.

I hope anyway.
TwidereX 1.6.0
Are you suggesting that people paying $5k are doing that because of some inherent property of a $5k rental, and that they would not prefer to pay the year 2000 rent on the same unit, say $3000?

If people paying $5k would prefer to pay $3k for their units, why would this logic not also apply to people who are currently paying $3k?

If lower rents would make the city become undesirable, why did people want to move there in the year 2000, when rents were much lower?
> The only real time and effort is the architectural decisions you make up front, and that's about it

And dont forget about the time spent fixing what could have been caught by types and regular old db constraints (for most applications)
You're correct that many of those things have a lot of oxalic acid, but that domestication often reduces it -- but quite a few of our domesticated crops still have a large amount. We haven't gotten rid of it! The spinach, brassica, and carrot families are high in oxalic acid and/or oxalates, as are a bunch of fruits. And rhubarb is absolutely loaded with it, of course. All things to avoid if you have a family or personal history of kidney stones...

The other big toxins that come to mind are cyanogenic glycosides, lectins (improperly cooked kidney beans can kill!), and phytic acid. Those are well represented across a huge number of domesticated crops. But again, we use cooking and/or moderated consumption to deal with it.
gocryptfs security model is not very good - attacker who has access to ciphertexts can do way more than casual user could expect. If you are interested in such things, take a look at CryFS paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/773.pdf.
Constitutional monarchs exist by the permission of the country’s government, and disappear when that permission is withdrawn. Thus, there is a straightforward remedy for these kinds of things if/when the people’s representatives choose to use it.
Yes, you have quick access to all your open Pull Requests from all repos- you can configure how far back to fetch data
> $5,000 a month

I hope the dish is gold-plated…
Well, vintage computers are the ki d of stuff that there is less and less of.

It’s like trying to find and buy a CRT TV these days. Utterly impossible.
Show HN: Twitter bot analyzes chess diagrams from tweets
All the way back to their Danica Patrick days they’ve been more focused on the bottom of the market (non technical users who don’t know better) than in providing a good product.
> Of course when you look at recordings of user behavior for interfaces you realize how dumb the majority of all users really is. And how without those tiles advertising “Xbox” and “TikTok” those users would probably fail to find those even if they were looking for them

It's a shame that there are so many stupid users that it's profitable to cater to them rather than leave them behind and cater to the experts.
Possibly because the Twitter website loads, but all the requests to get the actual data are failing. I wonder if Down for Everyone views that as a 200 and moves along
Rent control doesn’t work. Sane zoning laws and higher density housing should help.
agree.

Just one example: Why isn't the breakthrough that replaces coal... charcoal made with electric heating, say at massive hydro plants and with coppiced tree farms. It's almost a battery technology at that point, much more efficient than burning more trees to make even more trees into charcoal, and now coal can be shipped across the world. The demand would be enormous.

And why exactly did the Confederacy win the Civil War?
Wouldn't it be better to use the median and not the average?
This was last year on windows server 2019. I say WUA. I don’t know what the current version of it is called. There are still problems.
I thought media releases were required for image rights before video could be commercialized?

I always find these videos cheesy and fake and assumed they had received legal permission (if not hired actors to pose). If these jerks are filming and posing unwilling participants in their product, that seems pretty easy to remedy.

I remember a few years ago pornhub had a decision to get positive consent from people in videos to prevent revenge porn and other types of content. I guess TikTok needs something similar for videos with1M+ views.

It seems TikTokpays out between 2 and 4 cents per thousand views [0]. So if this video has 59M views it seems the creator made between $1,180 and $2,360.

So should be a simple small claims lawsuit. Maybe add in treble damages.

What would be really fun is to use the messed up class action lawsuit apparatus to create a class of victims that are in these videos that are uncompensated and just sue TikTok directly.

I like how the creator offered to take the video down, if asked. No apology and no offer to give back the money he made from the video.

[0] https://www.thetealmango.com/technology/how-much-does-tiktok...
This is awesome!

The C/C++ preprocessor is probably the esoteric programming language that see the most real world use. Or would that be C++ template metaprogramming...?
Can a validate commit message contain Jira ticket number when squash merge from GitHub webUI ?
My best guess is it is a form of epilepsy commonly called "negative myoclonus". Essentially it causes involuntary limb movement whenever you relax. When sleep deprived, it can also happen for me at night before bed when I'm relaxed sitting in a chair. I also noticed my startle reflex is greatly exaggerated during these times. Strangely it ONLY exists when I'm sleep deprived. Right now, for example, I have zero symptoms of this.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8891393/#:~:text=Negative%20....
> “So far Harrison has only encountered gratitude for what he has done, however it is clear in this case someone is upset. He wholeheartedly apologises to Maree if she was offended by what he did and urges her to contact him privately so he can personally apologise. If she requests him to take down the video he will do that.”

59m views. What about the money?
It's the TikTok-effect in action I guess.

I had a fun experience with the Instagram-effect recently. I tried to visit an arboretum earlier this year (don't judge me, it's interesting!) and I couldn't get near the viewing platform because someone had a crew lighting their shots for Instagram. They asked me to wait for a couple of minutes to get finished, which I did. Ten minutes later a crowd had built up on the ramp and I just pushed past and said "all right good work today everyone we got what we need that's a wrap!". It's nuts.

It's also weirdly disturbing to me that the presence of someone with an expensive looking camera was enough for a lot of them to just walk on past instead of enjoying the day out they paid for.
A MCU or a virtual apex could be better in order to ensure everyone hears the same thing. And a virtual apex combined with large events could also provide a decentralised persistence layer.
Databases aren’t queues. I’ve been burned by that a million times over the years. Also you screw your OLTP capacity there.
Thank you! I recently updated my blog's CSS as I was getting bored of the old monochrome style. Glad you like it :-)
That's what I'm saying. Classifying one data point is very straightforward and brings negligible value to a company. Reliably classifying hundreds of thousands of them is very complicated and not at all easily supervised. And if your company's business model is based on applying trained models to $real_world_problem, it doesn't just bring a lot of value to your company, it's literally critical for its success, just like a solid CI/CD pipeline or having a good security process.

It's attractive to think that this is just like classifying one data point over and over again. It's nothing like that, just like crossing the Atlantic from Galway to New York is nothing like kayaking around Mutton Island over and over again.
Yep, that's going to be the limiting factor -- if you live in the country it's easy, if you live in the city it's basically impossible.

Cities have other benefits, though -- access to materials, labor, community, rapid healthcare. Gotta make your tradeoffs.
> If there’s a massive bubble then it seems like that system didn’t control prices.

The bubble mostly affects new home buyers, which are the ones who need the least protection.

Rent is inflation-adjusted and can't be raised at will, so there is a very long delay between market prices increasing and most tenants actually bearing the cost. Everyone living in social housing still has a home, and won't be evicted so that another person can come in to pay 2x the rent. Seems pretty good to me.

I don't know much about Detroit but it seems to demonstrate that the simple supply-demand model does not reflect reality. Prices should have dropped significantly, but instead it followed the same curve as the rest of the USA, with those $500 properties being a localized phenomenon.
most commonly they are typically used in the definition of the assert macro. For example: https://github.com/lattera/glibc/blob/master/assert/assert.h .
> nothing of value has been created in a decade.

A good summary.
Strategy is about

- vision: what will be the market in the next few years ? What products will be needed ? Who will be the competitor & how will they be positionned ? And what about subcontractor ? And chain of value ? And added value ?

- execution preparation: what will be required in the next few years to complete to vision ? Maybe it's partnership, reorg, new products, integration, buy competitor... There may be some key milestone, like becoming first on a high visibility market before becoming first-to-third in a high value mid-market... Or becoming a reference for business before attacking the comsumer market... or becoming a reference supplier/subcontractor before producing with its own trademark...

Then the tactic is how to execute the strategy. There you'll need roadmap, ressource allocation and such... but you already know where you want to be in the next few years and roughly the differents milestones to get there before starting to move
Show HN: A catalog for compelling and comprehensible language immersion media
How do you ping reviewers?
I wouldn't hold any flowers or anything really for any stranger in public. I've been to touristy places before and learned this lesson just by observation. High likelyhood some pressure style selling tactics would follow.

Really, putting things on the groud or some other higher surface to free your hands should be a basic human skill by now.
To be pedantic, "locks out derivates of Chrome" is a bit of a stretched interpretation.

What most likely happens is that there is some fingerprinting JS running trying to weed out bots; and as Brave has a lot of anti-fingerprinting measures built-in, some of the tests fail.
Were they also in need of being filmed and put in front of a large audience against their wishes, whilst being portrayed as old and sad?
Tell HN: Do not use GitHub Classroom. It is buggy and unreliable as hell
Hey everyone,

I teach CS courses at university and used GitHub Classroom for the purpose of creating the student repos.

I just wanted to warn anyone who's teaching, this product is not ready for usage yet.

- Currently, the page that lists all the students in my class is unaccessible (gives 500 server error). This means I can't add or remove students from the class, not even view them. GitHub support acknowledged the issue and says they're working on it.

- Setting a deadline for assignments just does nothing - the deadline is in no way enforced or even checked. Students can just keep pushing even after the deadline has passed.

- This is the worst one: I used GitHub Classroom to create repos for student group projects. Of course I was thinking that the students would only get access to their own repo, for their group. But no, Classroom will add the students as members to your GitHub organization, giving them access to all private repos in your org. In my case, this included solutions to the assignments.

How the product could ship in this state is beyond me.
Porkbun is really good. Cloudflare also sells domains at registry prices, very convenient if you already use their services.
The filming may be candid, but to air, the subject must sign a waiver. Whether the subjects were compensated for agreeing to the airing of the footage is a different Q.
Are they? Most likely bought in at an overhyped valuation of over $20 and are now only receiving $20 back.
Interesting - I'll look it up
> Those prices would mea a software engineer in Europe would not even have money for rent after paying taxes, much less anything else.

Very much the story of lot of South European engineers. I used to pay 800 euros as rent when I was earning 1200 euros/month fresh out of university in Madrid.
This is why taking a basic programming language course is pretty important. I never remembered the difference until I had to represent both in an AST. You can teach it without talking about ASTs or interpreters, but it's teaching without any context or motivation, thereby making it harder to learn.

I do think mandatory semicolons make the distinction a little easier. If it has a semicolon, it's probably a statement. And for most C-style languages if it has curly braces, it's probably a statement too. Otherwise it's an expression.
The Stamp House: a self-sustaining, solar-powered cyclone shelter
Does anybody have examples/links of strategy as it was released, thats also considered good quality?
I switched to NameCheap a couple years ago. I don't have anything to complain about.
We all just fell for Amazon’s made-up holiday yet again
> But rate hikes are driving higher rents, which are fueling inflation.

how is higher rents fueling inflation? People paying higher rents (but on the same income) will have to forego some spending, thus reducing demand for some goods/services. So you'd actually expect that higher rents would drive _down_ inflation!
> 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."

It's a fair assumption that the majority of the code on the internet probably isn't written by you, so what you or any other individual writes isn't exactly a counter-argument.

I'd assume the poster you replied to was referring to the Javascript that gets delivered to their browser on a day to day basis by general purpose web sites, for which a significant percentage being ads and related unwanted content is entirely plausible.

If you were to capture all of the Javascript delivered to a randomly selected person's browser during a normal day I would easily believe somewhere between 50 and 80 percent of that Javascript was things that if the user was given a real choice they would not choose to load.
Candid Camera acquired consent and revealed the cameras as part of the joke.

It would have been such a sinister show if they never revealed it was a joke and never got permission to distribute the video.
I got angered by the domains part of Google Workspace (technically it's not the same as the Google Domains team), as they "lost" my access to the root domain name that I was using for a Google Workspace account that I deleted later:

- there was no way to move the "root" domain name away from Google Workspace while the account was still in service,

- after deleting the account, any access was definitely lost (I spent a lot of time on the phone with them, but they provided no help),

- the lost domain name was never "released", it remained officially under my ownership until the very last day of its registration period, even though I had no way to act on it.

- when I called that out a bug, they firmly replied that no there was no bug...

So, the lesson is: never use a domain name important for your business as the root domain name of a Google Workspace account, unless you really are sure that you will never need to move it to another registrar nor to delete the account.
Finally, a reason to avoid upgrading my 800 to an ST!
PLATO forgotten again.
The confusion is definitely manufactured
>> To transfer a domain Cloudflare insists that you use them for DNS

That feels… slimy…
Could you elaborate on your (or a hypothetical) use case where dynamo db makes sense? I for one can never come up with something better served by rdbms or s3.
From community to marketplace: why we did it (and how you can too)
It's funny how these videos say they're intended to spread love and encourage random acts of kindness, but the actual effect of them is decreasing trust in strangers (that they might be filming us for their tiktok). This makes me not trust anyone that goes up to me in the street.
> "We're going to do what we already should be doing" doesn't get re-election votes the same way "I made a new law to address this" does

In most systems, legislators have smaller constituencies than the executives. No President or Prime Minister will swing meaningful votes by prioritizing enforcement of consent-to-be-photographed laws. But an MP or Congressperson with an off-year primary projected to be within a 1,000-vote margin might find those 50 or 60 extra votes helpful.

That said, the ordinary course would be for said legislator to compel the executive to enforce. Not to write more laws. (The latter being easier to do, easier to message and less prone to backfiring.)
System status also green: https://status.twitterstat.us/
Exactly. Wealthy residents should at some point realize that culture and entertainment venues/options are (often) created by lower income residents. If that disappears you get soulless places which are dramatically less fun to live in. Not to mention the service industry workers, who also need to come from somewhere.
> No abstraction layer will allow you to run queries ad-hoc in a performant way.

Depends on the size of the data. Run analytics queries (i.e. things that return summary data not all rows) on 10GB of data through clickhouse or duckdb or datafusion and they'll generally return in milliseconds.