skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read a translation of Simulacra and Simulation once. I probably missed most of the nuance, but it's an interesting way to see things like this, where real life gets eaten by its own image.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/biofuels/news/greening-meas...

News story with a summary but there's plenty of source documents out there if you feel like a deep dive.
One of the companies behind the prize is VitaDAO: https://www.vitadao.com/

I know close to nothing about decentralized finance, coins, etc., but this caught my eye because I am interested in longevity research and tech. Does anybody know more about VitaDAO? Are they successful? Reputable?
Ask HN: One sentence pitch. What is your best offer and the price?
Cheap but not 4k, so not very interesting - big screens need high resolution much more than most TVs.
I've always thought that Apple should sell a premium Apple TV with a 4k laser projector, that would be interesting.
Codeball 1.0 – AI Code Review
> Please note the one thing that’s proven again and again in multiple studies: people who take supplements die faster of everything.

"Proven" is a strong word unless those are RCTs, or at least, natural experiments. Otherwise the causation issues should be obvious.

Related, incorrect birth certificates explain most cases of long-lived humans: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1

Those are more likely in poor regions, which is why those supposed supercentenarians don't take supplements, smoke and eat red meat.
The compiler writer used everything known to mankind about how to optimize code you haven't yet seen.

Human beings still suck at code.
> “Here is some advice,” she said firmly. “I get it that you try to put things into a framework that you can understand. That’s fine, but at first, until you become comfortable with the formal manipulation, you have to be like a child.”
“Games as a service” is fraud [video]
Starling makes money from business accounts (they pocket the interest on those, and that interest amounts to more considering business accounts keep a larger balance) and I believe also provides services to other payment companies, essentially SaaS-ing their tech.

It's a shame because this is something that Monzo could've done just as well and there's absolutely a place (well, was - that's now taken by Starling) in the market for it. Natwest still charges extra for a "next-gen" business account that allows multi-user access to a web UI, and I bet it's terrible - this is something a company can Monzo could've built in days based on their existing modern tech at a time where there was nothing like it in the market.
This is extremely impressive. The landing is a bit bouncy but that's probably quite hard to correct for because not to bounce would require the landing speed to be next to nothing and with a model rocket that is going to be that much harder than what SpaceX has to do. So in a way this is not 'like SpaceX' but even more complicated.
You want a source that immediately increasing fuel costs by 40%, as suggested by OP, would be economic suicide?

Fortunately, I don’t need a study. Fuel costs rose in the US 40% over the last year before falling. If you want to know what happened in the US, pick up a newspaper and read about record high inflation.
The journalist doesn't cover why the relatively low-rent shops and large bars and clubs could exist in the first place.

The Crossrail/Elizabeth Line railway route was planned in 1974. Essential points on the route -- like major stations -- have been "safeguarded" in some form since then[0]. That limited any development -- no significant new buildings were allowed on the safeguarded sites, and very little investment in the existing ones.

A bar, nightclub or concert venue fits well in that space. Recording studios and music shops fit well in the smaller buildings.

See the safeguarded route of Crossrail 2 [1]. You can see why above Angel station the Electrowerkz manages to be a very long-running goth/alternative/metal nightclub surrounded by modern office buildings. (I'm sure there are more examples.)

It was wonderful to have the three large concert venues around Tottenham Court Road when I was a student -- they were easy to get to and easy to get home from. I appreciated that even more when I was a bit older and I had to be at work the next morning.

It's possible for new music venues to work, for example the Islington Academy is in a shopping centre, but my concern is these flashy new LED-venues will be too expensive for smaller or non-mainstream bands to use.

[0] https://2577f60fe192df40d16a-ab656259048fb93837ecc0ecbcf0c55... page 15 / sheet 7 for Tottenham Court Road.

[1] https://crossrail2.co.uk/discover/safeguarding/

[2] https://www.electrowerkz.co.uk/
Crypto exchange Hodlnaut halts deposits and withdrawals
It’s important which word you choose, since both words bring with them its own implied solution to the problem. If we call it “underdeveloped”, the implied solution is to foster development. If, on the other hand, we call it “overexploited”, well…
My application provides end-to-end encryption of your entire file system privately over the internet, cross operating system. Price: free.
The cold war never really ended. This is one of those things that seems to escape the general consciousness, we all hoped that Russia would get the message and start to play nice. But for the last two decades it has been pretty clear that to assume the bear was tamed would be a huge mistake. Unfortunately especially Germany still doesn't seem to get the message, even though you'd think that by now it is abundantly clear that this was in error.
The role of propaganda and psy-ops on the populations is well known to be the playing field of modern states*. This study offers clues and methods of operations of Russia. Nothing would be more interesting in today's global situation of literally largest geo-political shifts not seen for three generation how other state operate to dominate the perception space of populations. (Of cause, UA should be next, except there is no goal let alone a concept of objectivity on the part of any 'state' media. In any case, such studies have to be done UK and US and EU' states itself, also in relations to other topic such as COVID, climate-change, etc).

* Disinformation is routinely and with increasing complexity injected into the public space by state-actors to trace-out routes and hubs of "spreading", civic response, retention and acceptance and for purposes designing of counter-propaganda. This tactic predates digital storage media. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare#United_S...]
Could it be a large creature fell to the ocean floor and was digested. At some point its ribcage pierced into the sediment, making the holes, then once that too had been digested only the holes remain?
Europeans would rather go Japan - ie. keep their national identity and downsize, than America - healthy demographics, but constant cultural clashes and crime waves.
Exercise Was the Perfect Coping Mechanism, Until It Wasn’t
The 'bare minimum to not get fired' is the expectation of any job.

If the employer wants to increase the expectations levelled on employees, then they should write it into their contracts. No contract? No expectations.

You can't hold people to some abstract set of expectations that are never written down anywhere; and if you try - well that's why they have to invent a stupid term like 'quiet quitting'.
> Events that present a risk of blowing through your error budget can still be scheduled so they don't page outside of normal hours.

Right, that's why you usually schedule releases over a Tuesday to Thursday (giving you ample rollout/canary/rollback time). You don't schedule on Monday (timezone) or Friday (weekend).

> But there is also big space between "nothing is ever abnormal" and "I had to get up at 2AM twice a month".

Speaking from Google principles, you will never wake up at 2AM because we don't do overnight oncall. We have a split rotation across the globe so there's always someone within waking hours to take care of pages. The real question is what happens between 6am-9am (one timezone) and 6pm-12am (other timezone, at least for my Ireland/New York split team oncall). Obviously you don't do pushes/releases during sketchy periods like I mentioned, and you usually have a "prod freeze" during holiday period (couple of weeks between christmas and new year), but stuff fails for whatever reasons anyway.

I used to work in large datacenter deployment, we'd have sketchy disks that would fail maybe once or twice a week, we'd get paged for certain machines getting stuck in repairs because our automation would fail under certain assumptions. We'd have machines that would go down and never come back up and our automation wouldn't detect that, etc etc. These are all tricky hardware issues that can be made more robust with software, or you get better hardware (some of our old hardware was REALLY bad and would randomly die with seemingly random errors and it took us months to migrate and decommission it properly), etc. These are all problems that one way or another will surface through your SLO budget and can affect how "daring" you can be during planned migrations and new releases, but it's still stuff you need to take care of even outside of work hours.

So, yes, you don't schedule big stuff outside of work hours, but that's not the whole picture either.
I had always assumed that a bullet to the head was the usual outcome for dictators who had lost their grip on the levers of power.
Terrible idea. Even the most relaxing bgm you can find becomes super annoying if playing the video at higher speeds.
Citizen of an East African state here. Don't read too much into this experiment. At best it's a limited regional partnership framework (emphasis on limited), at worst it's a private club for a bunch of crooked politicians. Nothing to see here.
> The PR review UI on GitHub unfortunately totally ignores commit messages, which means that we cannot comment on them

Not just on the reading side, but it's irksome how hidden the commit messages are in the Microsoft GitHub UI as an merge request author where I often explain what I did there and the reviewer never sees or reads it, instead forcing everything be through the comment system.
Maybe I'm biased having grown up with the first 3 games and countless console spinoffs, but this only really became an issue with Sims 3 and especially with Sims 4.

Sims 3 was ambitious in scope and kept adding more. It's unplayable if you actually own all the content. Maxis coded themselves into a performance hole and couldn't get out. It stuck to Sims 2's Expansion and Stuff packs formula, with lots of Store content that drove revenue.

Sims 4 is much prettier but also dialed back. This lends well to what EA did by going even _deeper_ into the "spray and pray small amounts of content with huge prices" approach. It's no longer Expansion and Stuff packs with decent amounts of content, it's now various types that all have small-mid amounts for high prices:
- Expansion Packs
- Game Packs (mini expansions around one core concept)
- Stuff Packs
- Kits (mini stuff packs around one set of objects)
How well does godot handle exporting to video game consoles these days? While I cannot speak for the other posters, that was certainly factor in my decision to go with gamemaker studio 2.
Could it be that Midway was simply that lucky spell that started the whole tradition? I don't mean to be provocative or anything, it's a genuine question of mine. I've read many times about the Battle of Midway and how it could have easily gone the other way (there are even several YouTube videos that show the whole thing nicely animated from both sides with fog of war).

If Japan had prevailed in Midway, supposedly inflicting to the US an equally devastating tally: even if the USA would have eventually won the war out of sheer productive capabilities, the traditions would have probably be written much latter if at all.

Up until Midway both powers were equally fearsome. One could even argue that Japan had MORE experience given it had already won against a superior enemy in 1905 (Imperial Russia).
I did the same and share your conclusions. I have family members who literally get panic attacks over news of events they cannot control— and they keep right on consuming it.

Someone once said that if you want to kick the newspaper habit, just read last month’s newspapers. You’ll quickly realize how useless and / or misinformed the content is.
I interned in the IT department (5 people for ~1500-2000 endpoints) of a large regional hospital with additional small local care instutions spread out over the surrounding towns/cities.

We had ONE meeting per week, every monday morning, where everyone told what they achieved the past week, what they planned to do that week and the department head handed down news from corporate to us (planned expansions, transitions in corpo IT etc.). That meeting took about 60 minutes and we were then all on the same level for that week with finer coordination done as required by specific incidents/projects.

Haven't yet worked in another institution with such a process but from my limited POV it worked really well, whereas daily meetings to reiterate the same things every, single, day sound like such a waste of time.
I would disagree because in my opinion it seems that there are some parts of the western developed world where levels of exploitation are increasing.
Meta's AI chatbot has some election-denying, antisemitic bugs to work
I wonder if we got sent back to early modern period technology how much computing would be possible that didn't depend on access to semiconductors. Would glass-blowing and metallurgy be good enough to make thermionic valves (tubes) for example? Would water-wheels, animal power, and perhaps crude steam engines be enough to power them?
> You want to find out why that important task is not getting finished because the person is getting blocked on some infra problem and instead of reporting the blockage to you they pick up another task from the queue.

I think blocked on a high priority task is exactly what scrum with daily standup is sold as surfacing.
How to introduce Domain-Driven Design in your company
So you need Bluetooth and installed the only BSD who has no bt....sounds like a excellent use of time on this planet ;)
Is OMAD also a good idea if you struggle to maintain/gain weight even with 3 meals a day? Is it consistent with making progress in sports, i.e. getting stronger/faster/increasing endurance? Is it consistent with outdoor activities like walking/hiking ~25km/day?
As I've commented above, I do feel the same way. But two things can be true at the same time: 1) The technology to make humans immortal shouldn't exist, and 2) if it existed, I'd probably still use it.

This is not hypocritical in my mind. It would be hypocritical if I myself would work on or invest money into longevity tech and make a statement like this.
This would be a game changer as a DJ.
It's chicken and egg, but one relatively easy to break on both sides.

- importing tools from Europe can kickstart the market and is a lot less risky than designing new tools

- 240V garage & exterior outlets are becoming common for hot tubs, RV's and electric car chargers.
While we're at it, the woman in the clip is Liù Bosisio. Beside interpreting Fantozzi's wife in many movies of the series, she did Marge's voice in the Italian version of The Simpsons before being replaced after season 22.
Not condoning violence by any means, but truth be told that would be very situationist, i.e. quite artsy.
Nitpicking on an otherwise insightful comment: the article is recent, but the period in which the optimization was made was decade ago.
- Pol Pot from Cambodia

- Mao from China's Cultural Revolution

- Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey [1]

- Joseph Stalin, author of the Great Terror

- Adolf Hitler in Poland [2]

- Ahmednejad in Iran [3]

- And ISIS, in the smoking remains of the Middle East [4]

* All agree with you [5] *

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20517969

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/the-mass-murder-of-polish-intellectual...

[3] https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/ahmednejad_urges_purge_of_...

[4] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/isis---echoing-the-purges_b_6...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism
New Ruby on Rails Open-Source Project Multi-Blogging Platform
As a developer, I always dreamt of having an open source project that people actually can use and contribute to, so one day I thought why not make it happen in real?

I was initially a Python/Django developer and got to learn React and Next JS, developed 3 web apps with that knowledge, currently in production, actually functioning.

And while going on a trip to Pokhara with one of my developer friends, introduced me to the cool features of Ruby on Rails, that how one can very quickly make SPAs without any hustle, no worries for DB, form submission, authentication/authorization, web sockets and much other stuff. And that actually was true.

After coming back from the trip, I started learning Ruby. As I was from a Python background, learning the very basics of Ruby wasn't that hard.

Then, I started seeking the Rails 7 tutorials, I was surprised that most of the tutorials were pretty latest. But yeah, some tutorials were from like 2015 to 2018.

I used my googling skills to learn Rails and developed some basic web apps with Ruby on Rails, i.e. Todo App and Chat App. Yeah chat app is pretty basic for Rails because the feature called ActionCable/broadcast does the whole WebSocket stuff on its own.

## The idea bombing

After digging some more, I suddenly remembered my dream open source project, and then why not do it with Rails? I started the project, named it, and started developing it. It's Deviser Club (currently in production).

> https://github.com/Bishwas-py/deviser-club

Deviser Club is my new Ruby on Rails open-source project that I've been talking about this long. It's a multi-blogging platform where you can create posts and quick tweets, like, bookmark, publish content and a few more other stuff.

It might have a medium-like look, so you can call it an open-source medium alternative.
So, yeah.

## The first pull request

The first pull request made me feel very precious because the request was from a nicely popular Rails developer, Yaroslav Shmarov.
Till now, I have got 5 pull requests, 12 stars, 2 forks and 1 watch.

## The probable pause

My SAT exams are in coming December, and I really wanna get into preparation for my exam, but this project is so addictive that I am struggling hard to get out. As most of the students here in Nepal have a dream of studying in the USA, so do I. That's why I might have to pause this project for some while. But let's see, what so on.
It depends how much you value your time outside of your 40. I value it at time and a half. If you want me to work those hours at time and a half or you want me to sit by a phone both is fine but that's how much it costs.

More than happy for the market to eat my lunch. I'll eat mine, uninterrupted.
The hotel, apparently, “brings together creative expression and fine architectural detail to present something fierce”

Lines like these are why this article in the Guardian of all places is a strong contender for my favorite article of the year. I laughed so much at all the examples of "PR gobbledegook". I see those all the time. A disruptive, immersive experience indeed!
Official Firefox add-on bringing offline translation support to Firefox
People install 240V outlets for EV chargers, RV's and hot tubs quite regularly. They usually don't break code to do so.

And those are usually 240V/50A outlets, a lot more powerful than the 240V/12A outlets of Europe.
There's nothing wrong with practicing formal manipulations: these are just "the rules of the game" and are 100% rigorous. Now, if you want to know "why these rules and not others?", they just happen to follow from basic properties like associativity, commutativity, distributivity etc. There's not much else to it.

The author's "misintuition" of variables is not critically important; variables can literally just be arbitrary symbols, and substitution understood separately. But the other "rules" are far more relevant.
What brand do you take?
See this JS Party episode for a discussion by Partytown co-author (and Angular creator) at the 50:19 mark, https://changelog.com/jsparty/237.

TL;DR, keep the main thread for your application, send 3rd party analytics, etc, to web workers.
Why should the decisionmaking process for Chromium be “democratic” simply because it is open source?

Anyone who wants to pay can implement whatever they want in the codebase. That’s in a way as democratic as it gets: equality of opportunity [to invest money and time].

If Google is paying for the implementors’ time, Google should have 100% say in what code they write. You and everyone else are free (thanks to Google’s generosity) to fork it at any point in the commit history and individually veto any specific change.
Exactly how I feel about gender revolution. Mental illness is not something to be proud about and is dangerous to public health.
do we have bootstrap binaries? (x86_64, static ELF64(linux))

(to compile the rust-compiler from a rust compiler)
Surprised no-one has mentioned Ben Eater: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater

He has a series on building your own computer. His "World's Worst Video Card" is also instructive. Ben's brain must be wired differently from the rest of us, as nearly all of us would have given up long before reaching the stages that he has.

ExplainingComputers also gives you a weekly fix on computing hardware. https://www.youtube.com/user/explainingcomputers His content is mostly around the latest SBCs (Single Board Computers).
Why did you introduce the idea of it happening immediately, overnight?

Did it seem too reasonable a suggestion to phase it in over decades with plenty of advance notice? Too achievable, too simple, too sensible?

Not to mention, the "extra cost" would be getting paid to the government in your own country, not to Vladimir Putin or similar in another. And then new business opportunities would be created, again in your own country, to meet this new demand.

Luckily, we've actually started doing this already. It seems important that the people who complain about it being impossible seem to have not noticed that it's already started and been quite successful so far, giving confidence to people who are paying attention.

If that's the case, how bad can it actually be?
Culturally the U.S. inherited a strong and aggressive maritime tradition from the pre-eminent naval civilization, the English. American colonists were famously pirates, some of whom operated as far away as the Indian Ocean. The spiritual father of the U.S. Navy is John Paul Jones, a brawling pirate and revolutionary war figure who responded "I have not yet begun to fight!" when asked to surrender.

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778)

"The future naval officers, who live within these walls, will find in the career of the man whose life we this day celebrate, not merely a subject for admiration and respect, but an object lesson to be taken into their innermost hearts. . . . Every officer . . . should feel in each fiber of his being an eager desire to emulate the energy, the professional capacity, the indomitable determination and dauntless scorn of death which marked John Paul Jones above all his fellows."

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, address to Naval Academy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones
Yet it's still better than the merchant, who actively corrupts everything. I agree with the parent, the anglo economizer must be curbed.
Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage!' (1992) [pdf]
The Key to Software Correctness
My trick is to 1) bend them outwards to lessen the pressure and 2) reuse the pads that soften over time.
I doubt the howitzer was that great. The battled opened with a hit on the foremast from the howitzer and it seems the ship still worked well enough to participate.