skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember hearing about one of those cases. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-odd-truth-jan-16-2004/

> PINE LAWN, Missouri - Curtis Smith Senior wants his $1000 bill back. He carried the rare one-grand note in his pocket for 20 years. It was seized by police in the St. Louis suburb of Pine Lawn, when Smith was arrested during a traffic stop. Officials gave Smith a check last April in return, but he wants his really big bill. Now, the one-grand bill is in the City Hall safe of the mayor - who considers it novelty. Collectors say the bank note is worth much more than its face value. The $1000 bill was last printed in 1934 and was taken out of circulation in 1969. Officials say Smith can have the bill back, once it's no longer considered evidence. But they say he'll have to pay for it.

While it isn't available to borrow, here's what the search text of https://archive.org/details/banknotereport32n6krau/page/n11/... reports:

> The article was from the Jan. 24 edition of the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, written by Heather Ratcliffe. It said that Pine Lawn, Mo., police had allowed Mayor Adrian Wright to “trade” $1,000 of his own money for a $1,000 note seized from Curtis Smith, who had been arrested on suspicion of dealing drugs and being intoxicated at the wheel of his pickup truck. Prosecutors did not file drug charges and ordered the money returned. Pine Lawn officials initially offered to pay Smith by check. They returned the-$ 1,000 note after a reporter inquired about the situation. Smith had carried the note around in his pocket for years as a novelty to show friends.
People underestimate how enjoyable it is to sit and think, study finds
I have seen a few people use butcher block top on a custom frame and it's something I've wanted to do lately. Maybe something like that would be fun?

https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/160-jason-long
The people should have visibility into the accounts and spending of the federal government and in particular defense spending. Pentagon full spending audit won't happen in our lifetimes yet the feds claim they should have full visibility into average person's spending and banking. This is upside down.
I really think an open source clobe of Duolingo would be really popular. People could upload and share courses similar to Anki.
You inner Libertarian has the same problem as every other person with that ideology - you are vastly overestimating the knowledge and capabilities of the average user, and the ideas that result will fail in practice. Algorithmic content is a market failure being subsidized by the fact that it helps sell ads. The capitalist greedy function means they're going to keep pushing algo content, because it's the money making engine. If you ban the combination of algorithmic content and targeted advertising, the damage would be vastly reduced (also Meta would implode, because their business is a market failure that only exists because regulators are not enforcing competition laws that prevent the use of free services subsided by ads and other antitrust laws).
I have only briefly looked at it. All in all it looks very similar to GDNative, albeit a little cleaner. It will be nice to finally be able to expand functionality without recompiling the engine.

Right now I rely on nim bindings for GDNative so it might be awhile before I make the change over, unless I decide to port my code to C++ or update the bindings myself.
What exactly would it do? Broadcast is an increasingly uniform, bland, and irrelevant set of stock footage and scripts targeting a shrinking population. The fairness doctrine wouldn't have had any more impact on social media than it did cable.
https://youtu.be/G56VgsLfKY4

Even the Joker wont take on the IRS.
Possibly. Maybe managers could shield X% of their reports, and the remaining Y% would be selected from randomly.

It's still unfair, but doesn't disproportionately affect a specific group as much.
Yes, in terms of "fragmentation," Mix & Match is vague and only possible in certain ways, but it gets more specific with tips #2-4 about browsers, search, and AI assistants.

As an Apple user, I avoid Safari to fragment (the tip is about switching to Firefox), and also have changed to Neeva to fragment my Google exposure.

Otherwise, I hear you, and definitely hoped for more clean lines and opportunities, but the book turned into being more about raising awareness of these companies' reach and incepting the mere suggestion that a user could (or even want to) fragment or limit their exposure in any way.
> Recipes are surprisingly deceptive. They seem like instructions you can follow, but a more apt analogy is that the recipe is an iceberg and beginner cooks are steaming along on the Titanic.

Devil's advocate (and very serious home cook): Food Youtube solves all of these problems in various and (IMO) much more entertaining and informative ways. There's a plethora of content ranging from highly-technical restaurant inspired recipes to "authentic" home cooking traditions passed down through generations. Tracking a progress meter isn't going to make me a better cook: having access to lots of different ideas and styles and trying the ones that speak to me will make me a better cook. Also, our tastes are largely inspired by what we ate growing up and there few universally-loved recipes. That's one of the most beautiful things about cooking: there's a million different ways to do it.

You don't know how to chop an onion? There are a million videos on how to do that. Want to know the history of a certain spice? There's a channel for that.
They use wide erasure code stripes, so redundancy is ~ 1x within a data center. Let's assume 3 data centers.

It's well known how to build a storage node whose cost is mostly disks, let's say 50% of the hardware is not disks.

So, redundancy and server costs explain up to a 6x mark up.

Power and networking really shouldn't account for the other 54x.
If you go to the bookstore and there are two shelves, one of Danielle Steel novels and another of Dan Brown, are you making a free choice to read trashy pulp fiction?
> technical debt is so rarely paid off.

It's not debt if you don't have to pay for it -- and if the ongoing costs of whatever it is are relatively insignificant.
Not sure quite what you mean. It sounds like list voting, is that it?
Did you think that I was saying that no recipes to make nacho cheese sauce exist?
Blackblaze reliability and performance are below aws, same for bunny cdn. Although I understand it can be interesting for some use cases where perf/reliability is not critical.
You do not need to pay double for everything, that might have been true with traditional VPS providers but it is not the way it works with cloud services.
You decide on what kind of failure you're willing to tolerate and then architect based on those requirements (loss of multiple AZ's, loss of a region, etc..).

Let's say your website requires 4 application servers, you can then tolerate a single AZ failure by using 5 application servers and spreading them among 5 AZs.
With a solar sail you can "tack" by reflecting photons against your tangential velocity – but that only works if the tangential component is indeed what you want to shed. Getting rid of radial velocity is more difficult, and in a hyperbolic (escape) orbit radial is mostly what you have.
He was referring to someone who was using it as a pejorative, and explaining his method for dealing with it in a situation where an argument about it would have been unproductive and distracting.
The PDF is triggered when it’s requested from the UI or from the API. The job is asynchrone, so it’s returned when it’s ready (generally in milliseconds). This prevents performance issues
Our family is no longer financially reliant on these gov't agencies. It wasn't feasible to work in an environment where the county targeted (again) the health department she worked for budget cuts, which led to higher case loads, higher insurance premiums, longer hours and virtually no chance for raises in the next 2 years at minimum.

Voters chose to not invest in agencies that protect the most vulnerable in the population. As a result, those who remain are overworked, more abuse gets through the cracks, and
even the best in this group start to break or start giving up on caring. Pretty big bummer.
Okta is degraded as well.
The real problem is that Zuckerberg does not know how to run a business that can sustain itself.

The go-to tactics for FB are to lie habitually to the press, fleece customers (ie: advertisers), and urinate all over the faces of FB users.

Harvard is the big secret to FB's success, not Zuckerberg. It is the prestige of Harvard that attracted FB's initial users. It is the connections and cachet of Harvard that attracted FB's employees and investors.

Zuckerberg is not Augustus Caesar. He is not Steve Jobs. He's a lucky boy who got into an Ivy League school at exactly the right time to create a social network with more prestige than MySpace.
>Amazon basically put malls out of business which are hugely environmentally destructive.

I'm all for tech doing good but this is a hugeeeee stretch
Early twitter didn't have much algorithmic involvement. I recall early twitter being a much chiller place. But in the last couple of years (and especially in the last six months or so) algorithms seemed pretty blatant - getting tweets from people was not following, etc. So while I agree that part if this is " a property of socializing in the large", it seems from experience with early twitter vs late twitter that as the algorithms became a bigger part of the platform, things went downhill.
Some of those look absolutely dreadful. I need a place to work, not a staged photograph from an IKEA catalog.
Can you improve the deployment story for wireguard to match the native PostgreSQL experience? Currently deploying EdgeDB requires setting up multiple VPN connections and environmental variables. Ideally it should be one click, zero-config just like Postgres.
What about fees for real non-fun mode?
> Part of the problem is that if the job doesn’t pay well, it attracts people who are independently wealthy and who are more likely to represent the interests of the wealthy.

Just don't elect them. When running for office in most places, being considered wealthy or coming from a wealthy family is a considerable hurdle to overcome (as is being extremely poor).
I'd cut those numbers in half, 5x and 2.5x and the pension at half pay... Over a Million a year for a few years is a great way to bank up a "set for life if I'm smart with my money" stockpile (at least it has been until now, and may continue to be for a little while) and so you want it a little lower to avoid a constant churn of people charging at the gates for a shot at that money.

Otherwise totally agree. I'd even go so far as to say permanent ban on any employment with a step down salary/pension for life, halving with each multiple of the time in office.
In France and in most countries in EU, it's mandatory to have a PDF that follows very pecific guidelines.
Can't say for sure for every country though!
"AI-powered code editors"? Hmmm. The first I heard of this idea was about a week ago watching Peter Zeihan dismantle the techo-utopians at https://ark-invest.com/. It seems like one of those future things (like fusion and flying cars) that are always going to remain in the future. I'll stick with boring old vim!
People have different learning styles. If you can come up with a gentle introduction, while still allowing deep dives in the specific areas, you'll boost your potential customer/referral base.

HN is going to tend to attract more of the individuals who prefer the deep dives.

As always, the trick is finding that first customer base, and figuring out how you can grow with them to keep them, and get them to spread the word.
Yes I'm sure China or Russia would be *thrilled* if their citizens wanted workers to own the means of production. Definitely would not involve tanks or squares or soon-to-be iconic historical photography at all.
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I was about to explain, but from my selfish POV it's actually better if you keep posting like this. So... carry on.
GDscript is a bit slow. It's not an issue if you use it to keep track of a reasonable amount of in-game data and control the objects to render. But it becomes an issue if you decide to write game intelligence in it, or keep track of a lot of things.

It also doesn't have an all integrated top of the market IDE, only the Godot IDE. (Although I don't think you gain anything from using a 3rd party IDE in a Godot game. Even less something like Visual Studio.)
The linked page includes the energy cost of a Google search. I made an informed guess that operations done infrequently and deliberately written in extremely power-inefficient ways cost at least that much.
No, it is about prejudicial behavior by a very obviously biased judge who should have recused himself. That he engaged other equally clearly biased judges to pile on makes it worse.

Kaplan should be impeached and removed. Whatever this guy did, he is just one guy. Kaplan is wielding and abusing the power of the US govt. That is always worse than anything an individual can do.
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legislation should not be delegated to a stable, forseeable, small number of possible actors. Corruption starts spot on. In a representative democracy legislation is a people duty because it is about the rules for all of us. So we have to decide.

Still the effort is brutal and requires full-time. So we need professionals (for a period), because we also need the lesser motivated people's views.

Social media (as is today) is to fragile, to toxic, to susceptible to surveillance and censorship, to centralised and to non-inclusive (in sum: non convival) to be even helpful.
It’s clear that the OP is curious, which was ultimately harmless in this case.

But as someone who lives in Los Angeles and sees this all the time — and has many friends who work on sets — you absolutely should not do this. Sets almost always “look like they’re open.” That doesn’t mean they are, it’s because there’s a-million-and-one things being done on the set by _skilled_ people who are being paid near minimum wage, working late, getting yelled at, and skipping meals and still can’t get everything that needs to be done done (Hollywood is lucrative once you get above the ground floor, but those early levels are brutal in every part of the industry).

How would you feel if someone just came and sat next to you working on a PR in a coffee shop and kept asking questions about everything you were doing? Now imagine you were as exhausted as the people on set, and there were dozens of people asking you the same question. Because this happens all the time here in Los Angeles.

Again, totally agree what they do is interesting! But they’re not doing it for you, and they’re in the middle of working.

Do you walk into the middle of a construction site when a crew is working because you’re interested in that process, too?
For my company, neither egress nor storage cost are the big issue. It’s the API call (PUT) cost.

We deal with payloads that are just a little too big for a database (we run Postgres and Clickhouse) but just too frequent (~100 per second) and small (think largish json blobs) to be effective on S3.

We are write heavy. Reads are probably 1% but need to be instant for a good UI and API experience.
It's epistemology 101. Absolute truth can never be determined. So we must inherently use imperfect method of approximating the truth. Those approximations are open to criticism, so any system that determines fake news will necessarily have to take a 'stance' in some situations: it will politicize and reflect the biases of those administrating the system.
What’s revenue growth looked like from month to month
Because money can't fix everything? In fact sometimes having too much money makes it worse, as YC startup wisdom says.
1) totally agree with the spaced repetition. Can't quite get that in a MVP though ;)

2) this is a really interesting idea, but I'm not sure it's really a conjugation, but just different nodes on the knowledge graph. What do you think is the benefit of a noun-verb relationship?

We believe there's some incredible fruit in a serious computer science approach to cooking and food. Here's a preview: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/vision-part-one
Yeah, that will all be simplified when we launch our cloud. Our goal is to make it possible to deploy to cloud with one short cli command. We'll have it soon.
that would save a lot of taxpayer money for sure
Do have any details about the compute or how they do it?
How did we get to a point where somebody with an English sounding name is teaching lessons on racism against Asians to an Asian?

You did nothing wrong. As a European I didn’t even have a clue what a wok might be for most of my life. Buying one would make no sense.
The goal to some is the journey and not the destination. I wish I had a link, but there's a TikTok of some woman that always thought the Lord of the Rings looked stupid, but then her partner mentioned that it had all this backstory lore like the family trees and she then read all the books in like a week. She didn't care about the ring or Sauron, just the fun world building. I'm fairly similar.
Also, people who can configure and maintain that infrastructure. It is more complicated, and it does require a different sort of person.

(And checkbox-easy is sweeping edge cases and failure modes under the rug)
Fair point, but I don't think 'crypto' or blockchains should be regulated at all so I didn't think it was necessary to include the entire phrase. Thank you for pointing out the flaw in my reply.
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> STATED by the Author in its 1986 version as intended for the public domain (and yes, stated again in 1992, despite having re-published this text in 1988, slightly modified, in his "Allegro ma non troppo" copyrighted collection).

Small print at the bottom of the page.
The USA also has an exit tax of a few grand to renounce, so they basically hold you at gunpoint that even if you leave the US for good and never use any of their services or even consular services you have an 'original sin' that forces you to keep filing or pay up the fee to leave the gang.
Counting today's outage? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267222
Whose original idea is it?

I actually think it's a wonderful thought puzzle at the least.

The two problems I have with it though, are reflected in Lincoln's 1st inaugural address:

* His criticism of the idea that only the Supreme Court can determine constitutionality: the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal

* His assertion that rule by a minority leads to tyranny or despotism.

If the thought puzzle could be extended by substituting the current closed party primary system with random selection initially - but still have a general election to choose among those candidates, you might find a way of creating a random-democracy hybrid.
I hope it succeeds, but fear Pelosi (the 'leader' of that party) will tank the bill.
It's worth noting if you are sued for any matter no matter how frivolous, any attempt at withdrawing the money is illegal. just something to keep in mind. your money is effectively a bond. Your risks are far greater than the bank failing.
Who's version of whats good?
No. People are not themselves online.
This general idea is known as "sortition", and actually has quite a long history. In the United States, and many countries, sortition still has a role–people are randomly selected for jury duty.

However, in ancient Athens, one could become a magistrate (~a small-town mayor in modern times) through random selection. There was a term limit of one year, and you were only allowed to serve once in a lifetime. You also had to go through a basic examination called the dokimasia to be deemed competent.

Several other civilizations have used this method over history, typically with the intention of preventing corruption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
EDIT: so apparently we are actually on MacOS, just in an iPhone sized frame. Have you tried searching the app store?

http://apps.apple.com/us/app/parsnip-level-up-your-cooking/i...
> It's not like this was a bank, it was in a strip mall.

Not sure what you're getting at here. Beverly Hills has a very large population of Iranian Jews, many of whom do not trust safe deposit boxes in banks because of their own lived experiences in Iran in 1979. This was a business filling a need in our community.
"social media is mostly controlled [and manipulated] by a privileged few" *additions mine

but, you could argue that it's always been that way. The scale has multiplied.
I have one. Best kitchen computer ever. About 8 yrs worth of use for 99 bux. Battery is bad now but it's too expensive to replace. It might be time to replace.
My new basic law of charts of personality types: "if you make an xy chart of any human traits, and look at it long enough, you can name enough parts of the chart to write a blog post or maybe even a book."
EDIT: ha! turns out I am following you on twitter

https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1551932519796408321

Please release this as a docker or something.. Ask the AI to do it for you
No. People are not themselves online and I assume that more people use social media than vote.
Within the past month, cryptocurrency traders have been using crypto scalping bots to catch short-term opportunities with both interesting profitability and downside protection.
Swift semantics can be unduly confusing and complicated.

"copy on write" value semantics mean you can have two variable references to the same memory for a long time before one mutation causes the space to be copied and mutated, leaving the other unaffected.

The function name "move" here is beyond terrible. It makes sense only to compiler writers, and even then it is ambiguous.

The function's goal/effect is to end the lifetime of a variable binding, to essentially force the COW.

(So much for scoping.)

More generally, Swift grows in fits and starts mostly driven by Apple internal needs. So if Apple needs `move(x)`, you might, too.

Poor Swift team: fully exposed in open-source, but driven and locked to Apple's needs. All the best to them.
I wish I could get a list of their customers so I know what other stuff not to use.
I agree with you but if you explain the 6x mark up, you only have 10x to explain out of 60x.