skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure it would be great if all configuration was written in a single configuration format.

I think the root cause is there is and was no readily available system standard/interface. I would claim that the majority of the files are doing boring things and could have, and would have, been made in some standard format, and possibly placed in some standard organization, if a system standard had existed. Or, perhaps I've too heavily discounting the desire for nerds to create something new, even when reasonable, but not perfect, alternatives already exist.

Systemd showed me how homogenization and standards are generally disliked, when it comes to things around configuration files, even if there's absolutely massive utility.
But sometimes, a good DBA or MBA makes your business a whole lot better.
Looks interesting, what if I need to write some logic (pre/post prediction) in the prediction server?
I see both those cases as "stolen but with a kangaroo court veneer of due process"
Personally yes. I am a realist where I know the odds are almost 0 and wasting my money on an almost 0 percent chance doesn’t make sense at all.

But when it’s 1B I still know I won’t win, but it’s also an amount where I at least feel like I should put my name in just in case. Not a lot of tickets but maybe like $10. Seems irrational but I believe that’s what most people are thinking.
I'd say give it a shot. Vercel has a much more reasonable Free Tier, was insanely easy to use and incredibly fast. I had my changes pushed to prod from github in <10 secs

I haven't built anything big on Vercel, but from my test drive, I'd be happy to use them in the future, and this is coming from someone who works AT the A in AWS. AWS does NOT make the easy things easy; though you are right, it does make the "more" possible, but it all depends on what you're optimizing.
I don't care what the EV is, when your chance of winning is 1 in 302,575,350 you're better off selling your house and betting it all on black
Seems all right: "In the United States, a recession is defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales". In the United Kingdom and most other countries, it is defined as a negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters."
Remove –my-next-GPU-wont-be-Nvidia
Because Google is taking away their ability to play the game they paid for. Stadia sells copies of games ($60 a pop), and offers subscriptions for additional money for higher video quality and access to a smaller library of games. The people who purchased titles from Google are having those titles taken away from them.
Quick sanity check here, because I've seen this claim and never bothered to check.

Let's say Western Europe = Germany, Austria, Italy, and everything west of them, i. e. Benelux, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain (= UK - Northern Ireland). (I'm including the UK and excluding Ireland because there are rail connecctions from Britain to the mainland but not from Ireland to Britain. I'm excluding Denmark because isn't that really Scandinavia?)

Total population: Germany = 84m, France = 68m, Britain = 66m, Italy = 59m, Spain = 47m, Netherlands = 18m, Belgium = 12m, Portugal = 10m, Austria = 9m, Switzerland = 9m, Luxembourg = 1m. Total is 383m.

Total area, in km^2: Germany = 358k, France = 551k, Britain = 228k, Italy = 301k, Spain = 499k, Netherlands = 41k, Belgium = 31k, Portugal = 88k, Austria = 84k, Switzerland = 41k, Luxembourg = 3k. Total is 2225k.

So the population density of western Europe is about 172/km^2 or 445/mi^2.

The only states this dense are DC, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware; New York and Florida are just under the cutoff.

If I've done the math right, DC + NJ + RI + MA + CT + MD + DE + NY + PA + OH (74m people/429k km^2) is the largest contiguous bunch of states which is over 172 people/km^2.

If we take the east to be everything east of the Mississippi, I get 190m people in 2.301m km^2, or 82 people/km^2. If we add in CA + OR + WA that actually drags down the density a bit.

So the densely populated bits of the Northeast/mid-Atlantic are as densely populated as Western Europe. But the eastern US as a whole isn't.

I agree that those pairs of cities you mentioned should have better connections between them though.
must be latin
I took a risk and used it, and it's pretty spooky what's available.
APE also supports metal (BIOS MBR) as a target.
I switched to geforce now after some time. You can play the games you bought on steam and other platforms and just pay for computing
There's plenty of discussion in this thread on the methodology.

Clearly Hillary has a longer and more verbose Wikipedia entry than any of those other people, which is no way surprising considering her length of tenure as a high profile national politician.

You could be more helpful by presenting your superior approach to programmatically ranking 'fame'.
Lakka boots Linux on an RPi and loads a (DRM—not X or Wayland) GUI in under 5s. Off an SDCard, at that.
The GOP went to war against Google over spam – and may win
Median salary in the US is 67k.

3 of that is a rounding error from what our reps are currently paid.

Not sure what that argument is going?
I have basic understanding of a generic process. I mean specifically 200+ layers. Do they “just” deposit layer after layer after layer, 200-something times?
This is a spam bot.
While there is a lot US rail could do to get more freight, the fact is we send a lot more freight by rail than Europe.
It's worth noting that Manticore search isn't a new development: it's a fork Sphinx, a pretty popular search engine in 2010s written by Andrei Aksenov in C++. It got superceded by ElasticSearch because the original engine never fully emraced multicore processing and working as a cluster, but I personally used Sphinx and it was very simple and very robust, a stark contrast to Elasticsearch, especially for tasks where you do need to ingest a lot of data like log collection.
I don't think they will. Tiktok is a creator platform. More audience is better.

Instagram has left a huge gap by forcing everyone to login.

IMO, Instagram and Twitter are using the wrong metrics which ignore non-login users. They focus on converting users to logged-in. They don't focus on delivering maximum value.

For downloading, I can see that go away though.
React is "just" a library, it doesn't give you everything you need to build out a full-stack or framework.

For example, see Clojure's Luminus: https://luminusweb.com/

You have to dig down deep to find where React is.
TikTok does better at not being too political though. Reddit is basically a political left wing news site, and Facebook has a lot of politics on it.
Its pretty hard to trust a lot of the eng content on the web right now; so much blogspam, self promo stuff from frankly underqualified people who are trying to build up a profile to get hired.

Somehow I still don't feel that way about StackOverflow. Google and random results though... yikes.
how are deserts a relevant problem?
A “Nano-Robot” Built from DNA to Explore Cell Processes
Or alternatively, they're the most ethical form of tax ever -- a voluntary tax.
> How do you decide to designate something as more animalistic or human

That is actually quite a good question.

I haven't thought about it thoroughly to reduce into an objective way.

Will work on doing that in the future.

This makes me think that the differences I perceive today are more of an intuition or an unconscious mental process.

Thanks for engaging in the discussion! ;)
> "Every civilian hiking kit looks like a freakin' rainbow. It's ultra tacky and I hate it. I don't want to be seen when I am alone and outdoors."

It's a clash of priorities. Hiking gear is brightly coloured to help scare off wildlife and increase the odds of being seen by search & rescue.
Does Lottery Revenue Rise or Fall during Economic Hardship?

https://taxfoundation.org/does-lottery-revenue-rise-or-fall-...
Without state lotteries they’d still exist, and be far more likely to be crooked even with heavy regulation.
I guess I don’t understand how the various endings he selected are at all related to what he’s decided they “conclude”? The connections seem tenuous, at best.
I used to love paired programming.
I've done it successfully a number of times, but I had a few years where I did't know if I could function or not at any given moment.

One minute I'm solving the hardest problems a company has. Next I can't remember where I'm working, Resolves itself in a few minutes, but leaves me exhausted for a couple hours. Scares the crap out of people.
Infamous people are definitionally famous.
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The lottery = Poor Person’s Tax
>Theres nothing I can say now to make you believe if you don't

Why can't everything be licensed directly from the right owner of a game so that the license of a game can be transferred from one streaming service to another?
AWS is overwhelming for most of Developers. Also vercel is focusing on ease of deployment for front end, it is also zero config, you can just deploy nextjs, react, svelte, remix apps in matter of minutes. Which is impossible with AWS
That my whole point though. 10M isn't worth putting your name in "just in case"? That's why it's funny to me. It's like saying I wouldn't cross the street to pick up $10M but I would for $1B.
I'm surprised by the general opposition to your comment. I agree. US transit infrastructure, including rail, is anything but world class. Sure, we move tons of freight, but is that the standard alone?

Just because it works doesn't mean it can't be improved better. It's always ok to reject the "don't fix it if it's not broken" mentality.
It's unlikely that RNA replicases ever existed in the absence of short amino acid polymers. The primordial ribosome might be the concept your looking for - an association between short RNA sequences and short amino acid sequences capable of self-replication via various RNA reactions and amino-catalyzed reactions.

This may be the original article discussing this hypothesis:

"The ribosome as a missing link in the evolution of life" (2015) Root-Bernstein & Root-Bernstein, J. Theoretical Biology

https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.11.025

> "Evolvable entities existing between self-replicating polymers and fully functional cells would presumably have many, though not all, of the functions of a cell, yet be significantly simpler in composition and organization. These entities would be able to self-organize and replicate themselves; store information and replicate that information; translate the information into the components necessary to produce their functional structures; capture metabolic components and energy; and transform these into useful biochemical networks. Norris and his colleagues have called functional forms of organization midway between macromolecules and cells “hyperstructures” (Norris et al., 2007). Such hyperstructures had to be instantiated as evolvable entities, meaning that their components would be subject to variation, replication and natural selection."
Totally understandable! Looking forward to trying this out with my $1 of credit!
Strong disagree on your strong disagreement.

As the term has been corrupted, it just means "Code that isn't the way I would have done it."

You won't have to fix it a year from now -- you'll just be cursing at having to understand it.

And eventually, management will become convinced that everything has to be thrown out and rewritten; maybe it'll even be true.
Chinese Python
We’ve got a broad and growing addiction & attention problem in America. Ad-fuelled social media, crypto, day trading and useless financial engineering. A growing fraction of the labor force, moreover, is dedicated to these cancers.
with steam at least the data and executable are on my machine

it's just a small bit of hex editing away from being steamless
We're not talking about doing NYC - SF by train, but there are a lot of places where it makes sense.

As I used to live in the Bay Area, it really surprised me that there was no bullet train between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Yes, apparently it's planned but it boggles my mind that they waited so much before building it.

Americans don't realize how much nicer train is compared to plane for medium distances (up to 500 miles). Station being in the middle of the city, get in the train 10 minutes before departure without check-in or security, no waiting 15 minutes on the tarmac before disembarking... I guarantee you the door-to-door time is going to be lower.

Also train is more confortable, seats are wider, you can use phones/electronics for the full duration of the trip...
Do you know where Microsoft calls out the Registry as the current best practice in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/?
You could swap out React here for another solution (e.g Svelte) and it would mostly read the same. The Build Output API[1] mentioned is how React, Vue, Svelte, and their "metaframeworks" run on Vercel today.

[1]: https://vercel.com/blog/build-output-api
OpenWRT worked around this by creating UCI, its own configuration system that it uses to generate all package-specific configuration files: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/uci

Configuration for all supported packages is stored in files under /etc/config in UCI's own text format, and OpenWRT's init scripts generate service-specific config files based on the UCI settings when the service is (re)started. For example, to configure Samba, users don't edit smb.conf directly, they set UCI settings like samba.workgroup, sambashare.path, etc.

There's a `uci` command-line utility to read and modify settings, and UCI forms the basis for the OpenWRT web interface.

debconf does something similar for Debian packages, though I haven't seen any packages that use debconf to completely supplant vendor configuration formats the way UCI does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_configuration_system
OOP is pretty well defined.

99% of the time it means type dependent namespaces.

Class A.foo and Class B.foo both represent separate namespaces in which a field or method foo can be defined, the name space is directly tied to a type. In Haskell every function is defined in what amounts to be a global namespace. This is particularly annoying when you have records that share the same attribute names.

You might argue that structs fit this definition but they are missing type dependent namespaces for functions/methods and the fact that you can define fields and methods to only be accessible within their type dependent namespace, not outside of them.
Would you prefer they just raise your tax by a dollar instead?
This has been my experience as well using a degoogled ROM for the first time. I feel I got so much time back. Now I'm really using my phone and not the other way around.

I prefer Session for messaging and for family I ask them to reach me on Telegram FOSS.
I think I have long COVID. What does that mean?
I'm sure they bring some value but my understanding is they don't bring enough value. But I could be wrong!
Federal Preemption of State Privacy Law Hurts Everyone
why allow people to pay once when people will pay more than once ? their logic
This would have to be re-verified, but my anecdata is that most of the time my rig spends loading NVidia driver.
Is there any writings on this? It sounds interesting.
@Ryan - I think OP was asking about the beehives that we sell on the website, haha :)

It was started by Mark... he raises bees in his backyard, so we have some kick-ass honey raised right from our New England backyards :)

1 pound - https://buy.stripe.com/aEU28j7CR6tV81i7su
3 pounds - https://buy.stripe.com/8wM6oz3mB7xZbduaEH
Bioadhesive ultrasound for long-term continuous imaging of diverse organs
> 10M isn't that appealing but suddenly 1B is?

From the article, it sounds like the probability of winning is independent of sales (in a single game)? If that’s true, it’s rational—ticket price and win odds held equal across games—to respond to a larger jackpot.
Now every single app is trying to copy TikTok. It'd be great if they just respected our time.
During the initial COVID outbreak, did Canada allocate huge sums of money ostensibly to shore up the medical system like we did here in the U.S.? Where did all of it go? Certainly none to nurse's salaries.
There is NeoCities. https://neocities.org/browse
Looks like a cool idea, even if i'm sceptical that someone can learn AlphaGo in 8 weeks...
Agree, I thought this was supposed to be a netflix of gaming. The other problem is Xbox and PS both have cloud offerings like this and are better options
Imo, your choice of scare quotes around "smart" telegraph your unwillingness to consider even a well-founded data informed argument, for what it's worth.
Appetite for Destruction: Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation
What should you use – CloudQuery or Steampipe?
The only framework of that scale and quality I’ve found in node-land is Adonis [0]. It’s why I chose Adonis 5 for my latest product—it needed to be built in JS or TypeScript but I wanted the “batteries included” feel of Laravel or Rails.

[0]: https://adonisjs.com/
As an American, it doesn't really boggle my mind at all. We have a very car-centric culture. Just look at how we treat cyclists/cycling infrastructure, especially in cities. It's night and day compared to most European cities.

To be fair though, the continental US is almost double the size of Europe and Amtrak is actually alright in the areas that it serves (although my experience with trains in Switzerland/Italy was definitely much better).
> Median salary in the US is 67k.

No, it's not. Median household income is about $67k. Median salary (or, at least “median annual earnings for workers who worked full time”) is about $56k.
Except this problem rarely comes up. Everyone has their favorite way to set up their editors to lint and format automatically using the project's config.

Over my career, I see that every company has some version of:

1. New guy joins a team, wants to push code ASAP

2. He sets up his favorite editor and punt configuring linters and formatters

3. Code pushed, CI fails at linting

4. Some well-meaning coworker or new guy suggests some variations of husky/pre-commit/fancy git hook scripts

5. Team agrees and put that into the repo

6. 6 months to 1 year later the entire team realizes its benefit does not out-weight the cost, and unanimously agree to rip it out unceremoniously.
Absolutely! You can use our Windows 10 instances and cloud game (like how airGPU sells cloud gaming containers on us), render blender scenes, or do CAD on remote desktops. These are dedicated virtual machines for you to use :)
on the internet, everyone is wearing a hat/wig
This exists for Postgres, let me try to find the name of the tool

EDIT: I can't find it, I searched for 30 mins, I promise this exists though. If anyone else can remember the name of it, please post.
AKA the biggest money sinkhole and waste of public funds ever created.
The more I see these announcements, the more I wonder - what is the appeal of something like Vercel and the likes? On the surface it seems like AWS/GCP/Azure/whichever big cloud provider can replicate literally everything they build within their infrastructure quite easily. Why host your core infra in a BigCo cloud and then the site on Vercel?
This looks pretty cool - what framework do you learn?
$10 is still a lot of money and that’s why you still see enough people buy lottery tickets.

But $1B brings in casuals from all over the place that usually don’t buy lottery tickets. For some it’s the entertainment value, for some it’s “ohh might as well”.
People who learn to resist this onslaught of stimulation targeting our limited attention span will be the winners of the next few decades.

I estimate that about 5% of people aged 20-30 currently have this ability.
Because not enough people live along the way. Sure you an build track and run trains, but 5 hours on a train is about the time where flying is enough faster that people will fly instead of taking the train. Less than 5 hours train competes well (stations are closer to you, and no long security lines), but after that airplanes are enough faster that few people would use a train. That means only a small number of people will ride the train for those middle stations.

Sure if you are building a track you can put in stations in towns that don't generation much traffic, but you still need traffic from somewhere and it won't come.
Reasons Remote Workers Are Choosing to Relocate
I was using minoxonil for a while and it was just meh, I knew about propecia but the side-effects are bad and it messes with hormones. Discovered Hims makes a minoxonil + propecia combination topical. This combined with norizal shampoo lead to a massive difference in about 9 months. I only apply once a day, not twice a day like recommended so it could possibly be even better for me.

The Hims stuff is only $50/mo and I'm really stretching it out since I'm only applying half what they recommend. I really would recommend trying this out to anybody before going to implants.
Try going to <yourcity>.craigslist.org and searching for Lego in the For Sale section. You'll likely find bulk Lego for super cheap.
That being said, the user experience of Stadia is so much cleaner, GEforce now has much jank in linking accounts, staring up your instance, checking if a game you might buy is even supported, and then deciding the storefront to get it from if it is.

But I still prefer Geforce for exactly the reason you give--still having the games regardless of what happens with the streaming service.
Weird. No famous people are noted at the house I grew up in.

Bad joke. This is amazing - thank you.
Debugging Postgres Autovacuum Problems
I’m not defending China’s claims- they’re clearly fairly spurious and embedded in a fairly questionable end of WWII. The truth is it’s just a pretext for having a gateway from the South China Sea to the rest of the world- which I don’t think is particularly unreasonable as an aim. The question is why US war ships are 7000 miles from the mainland US, if I had to pick I would say that is far more imperialistic. And again to reiterate- I prefer the US as a hegemonic power, but let’s be real about what’s happening.
Marketers/ Admen as facilitators of Internet culture collapse.

Real estate investors/professionals as facilitators of housing crisis.
As much as the racial angle is pushed here, it seems that the core problem is unreasonable codes to begin with.

A law system where everyone is guilty of crimes is ripe for selective abuse.
My father-in-law has an E-tron, he's gonna get a kick out of that.
I completely agree that the “people directory” isn’t coming back due to to social hesitation. And I think I stand counter and say it was an anomaly that it existed. It existed solely because it was new. People have different identities across the internet and it’s best to keep them separate. You don’t use your work email for personal stuff. You don’t use your LinkedIn account when you want to create a Tinder account for a reason.

I also agree that the “old media” trashed tech until people finally agreed it was bad. I think some of it’s justified but not all. I’ve long complained about the bias here. I think the shift of democratizing the voice of the people is only going to change society more (in the short term we may call this bad for democracy but I think it’ll be good in the long term). For example, no news site would have run a story about George Floyd, but thanks to social media we don’t need them to. The flip side is misinformation, of course.

I think facebooks drive to video is probably benign trend chasing. I don’t know if it earns them more but I’m sure they’re lowering ad value in the short term until advertisers figure out how to make good ads on it. I don’t have data but I suspect the “home page and FarmVille” era died on its own and the newsfeed was facebooks way of injecting new life (as opposed to the NF killing individual postings)