skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sick of hearing about what crypto "could" do. I used BTC to pay for a few lunches back when transaction fees were in the cents rather than hundreds (?) of dollars or worse, and it was pretty neat, but it's clear today that the crypto ecosystem has largely become a paradise for grifters, scammers, fraudsters, and straight-up criminals, and (more generally) just another way for the rich and sophisticated to get richer at the expense of the poor and unsophisticated. Using it as a payment processor for amounts < tens of thousands of dollars seems grossly wasteful at best^[1], and using it as a wealth store for any length of time is impractical due to the volatility.

Bitcoin turned heads and got adoption because it was a proof of concept that proved the concept. Nobody would have given a shit if it was just a whitepaper without a deployed implementation that worked, and nobody should give a shit about crypto claims now until they are made material in a form whose harms don't outweigh its benefits.

In short, crypto needs to grow up. But I'm afraid most of the people throwing their weight behind it today prefer it in its current state.

^[1] Yes, "gas" (barf) fees are down today. No, I don't consider that representative of the current crypto ecosystem in a "healthy" state. See also: GPU prices.
You get just "upset" with fascism?
No, it can't and it won't! Stop drinking the crypto Kool-Aide!
I don’t live in Canada and so I wasn’t aware of that because Kindle works in US library systems.

My guess is that it doesn’t work in Canada because Kobo was a Canadian company before it was acquired and because Kobo’s owner used to own Overdrive (before it sold it to private equity a few years ago), but I could be wrong.

Obviously, if a device doesn’t work with the services you engage with, it’s probably not the service for you. But since Kindle does work with many, many library systems (and its arrangements with libraries predates Kobo’s existence), I think that’s more regional edge case and not a blanket reason to use one over the other, which is what OP was saying.
It also helps to understand their motivations and speak in terms that they actually care about. Things like revenue, customers, markets, resources. Hint: They almost never care about the engineering details.
The i960 MX (née BiiN) had a similar tagged-memory capability system along with a fairly pleasant RISC instruction set.
Whether or not an arrest is warranted is another debate, but the it's important to highlight the context of the group who flies a flag so closely related to the nazi flag to understand their motivations behind creating the image, and what it implies about people who share the image.
Better to save your food, maybe...
But they're not against LGB, just T. So they're anti-T. When every letter in the acronym is literally representing a different group, lumping them together the way you are is dishonest.
From my name and city origin you can determine my family's caste.
> However, we cannot control the medication that we take, which carry side effects.

What makes you say that? The medications one takes are due in part to decisions made earlier in life, which result in conditions experience later for which the drugs are prescribed.

Also, drugs aren't the only solution to certain medical problems. For example, you can take weight loss pills, or you can actually cut your caloric intake.
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Kobos do support modern epubs, but for some inexplicable reason, they use their old epub2 renderer licensed from Adobe for all .epub files. You can just rename .epub files to .kepub and force Kobos to use the modern reader code. This gets you a lot better formatting. The catch is that location bookmarking becomes imprecise if you do this rather than use kepubify. It's super weird that they don't just offer the option to run kepubify locally on the device, behind the scenes.
Very informative and love the illustrations.

I'm building a new website and am using sidekiq for background job processing which relies on redis behind the scenes to store all the job data. I configured a high availability redis instance with `maxmemory-policy noeviction` to ensure no data is lost.

The website is still in its infancy so not thinking about scale for the next little while but curious if you have any tips or gotchas to keep an eye out for. Thanks!
I had no idea. Excellent tip!
Sounds like the GP’s instance happened in Silicon Valley based on their rant against SV startups. Silicon Valley isn’t the type of place where the property owner wields a shotgun and asks you to leave because they’ve made guns illegal, made kicking trespassers off almost illegal, or because their armed security guards never let you in in the first place.
ZeroTier version 2 is being built in Rust, with the main reasons being safety (it's a network protocol!), easier cross platform compilation, easier dependency management, and an all around better language than C++. It should help us greatly boost developer velocity while also be much safer from a security point of view.
You don't know that at all. For all you know, 99% are legitimate targeted harassment or part of a larger course of offending behaviour. It's snap uninformed judgements like yours that are the problem, imo
Company? Lightning is a distributed network and anyone can participate.
Shout out to my college cafeteria that used to serve "Toast Surprise" on some Fridays.

That's "whatever we couldn't get rid of during the week, served on bread and with grilled cheese on top".

If the original meal was something like overcooked, underseasoned vegetable stew, that made it 300% better.
Absolute dreck. Here is the level of trustworthy info you'll find in this affiliate marketing piece masquerading as content: "...even though that increase might only be a few degrees above room temperature, doing this overnight, every night, doesn't seem smart to me. So, I've radically changed how I charge my iPhone." [Emphasis mine. Affiliate linkfest follows this stunning revelation that you should change the way you charge your phone because of the shill writer's "feels"...]
I would add general weight bearing exercises to your list to prevent osteoporosis:

https://www.bones.nih.gov/health-info/bone/bone-health/exerc...
I used to have an LC that I used to run Debian on, sadly it crashed regularly :(
Economics where you cannot go around taking other nations human resources looks like Japan. A closed system
At my workplace, one of our common sayings is “when you’re doing badly, users complain about bugs; when you’re doing well, they’re complaining about missing features.”

From 1998 to 2004 I worked as the IT manager at a plastics manufacturer whose entire system was backed by SQL Server, and fronted by MS Access databases that people ran locally for the forms and reports (no data was stored in them) or Excel (same thing). This is low-code in a nutshell and it worked well back then: it was CRUD before websites were CRUD. And we were constantly developing it and building out more complex scenarios for industrial production control and accounting and reporting.

Why? Because it worked, it allowed users to conceive of the next thing they could use, which inevitably led out of low-code scenarios. At one point we seriously investigated hiring trying to implement bin-packing algorithms in VBA so that warehouse pickers had better direction in order assembly.

Low code systems either don’t work, or they do and create demand for “high code” solutions.
That’s one objection, but another one in the FTC’s rejection as outlined in the article was the cost of terminal.

My point was “cost of terminal” seems like a weird one to be getting dinged on.

I agree capacity seems like a better thing to be focusing on. This seems like an own-goal from StarLink as they could have kept up their speeds by slowing growth and not enabling roaming. But maybe they are just prioritizing subscriber count over winning subsidy dollars.
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When I say growth I mean net profits. Those imploding VC companies were never profitable.

A larger profitable company has more chance of survival by shrinking into a smaller profitable company. It's a buffer. But an already small profitable company doesn't have that option, there's more risk.
I think Germany has the most expensive electricity in the world, and AFAIK that was 2021, so its even worse in 2022.
> Growth or degrowth are not national policies but individual ones

Degrowth as used in the OP article is about macro level policy. For example solar panel subsidies, taxing coal and investments in public transportation.

Individual actions performed in the name of "growth mindset" (whatever that means) can like any other actions be stopped, and likely will be stopped if they cause harm to others.
paradise for people who don't like regulation. Criminals, and people with a criminal government/monopolies.
Those same satellites will cover land as well, right? I would guess that they are hugely over provisioned for their maritime usecases in support of their main mission.
The only de-growth policy that matters anyway is having less children, and people do that naturally as they become more affluent.
No. But you didn't in the old days when it wasn't broken out as a separate line item either.
For comparison, Ukraine's military is quickly replacing its old Soviet junk with more modern (sometimes top of the line!), advanced western weaponry while Russia is replenishing its equipment with... even older Soviet junk. Even if Putin is willing to throw more bodies into the meat grinder, the average lifespan of a Russian grunt will diminish at an increasing rate. Russian bodies are piling up faster and faster as WW2 equipment is no match for modern warfare.
Is Google the only provider doing this so far? Has anyone created a git repo that tracks which mail providers are permitting governments to side-step spam filters?
It may or may not be. Context is important, and I think it's pretty clear that the swastika here is attempting to make the point (right or wrong) that LGBT groups act like Nazis.
If all they did was "try to find out" and then letting me go when they are either satisfied or I stop talking and they have no probable cause a crime has occurred, I would have never made this post.

It's clear to me these lists are as much about extra-judicial punishment as "finding out." I do not think a place exists in our society for these lists that impose against the freedom of citizens to travel without some sort of due process to petition a court for removal and/or some way to "drop off" the list after X years of living as a free peaceful citizen in harmony with others. Law enforcement officers should be tasked with enforcing the law, not with harassing people about things that are non-criminal, like fighting against ISIS (believe it or not there is no law that prevents you from fighting in a foreign militia, and in fact I do not believe any American has ever been charged for fighting with YPG.)
I love how so many behaviors we depend on were mistakes or temporary fixes

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move"
But I think consumers understand that getting a Bitcoin-based payment network off the ground is far more important than any of those features you list /s.
Mostly because the AI isn't able to really strategically "plan".

Most of the work goes into iterating over all units and giving each an action based on certain metrics. Thus coordinating units and strategy isn't really present.

Now with some work you could add a higher level planner system. Vox Populi, a Civ5 mod, has done some really clever stuff with organizing units into formations for battle.
I got the same. Three minutes later it suddenly worked. The content was then served by Fastly, so I guess it was their f-up.
> A constable may arrest without a warrant to prevent the person in question [from] committing an offence against public decency (subject to subsection (6))

I'm not sure of the specifics as to what "public decency" means in the UK but I believe your implication. I think subsection 6 supports my 'theory' (read: wild accusation)? Seeing as it was posted on the internet and could reasonably be avoided.

Even if that's not so, this seems like a tort and should not be handled by the police. Just my opinion.
Can't be upper management yet, at least not at my company; otherwise, rather than complaining about paychecks, they'd be complaining about allowing WFH at all >_>
I think it's taken for granted that finding even three other people to play couch co-op is very difficult, much less enough people for a 30-person LAN match. Work seems to be a reasonable place to meet people who want to partake in extracurriculars.
Sure, but in many cases people want to redeem the payment for local currency. In that situation, governments can manage the on/offramp to the network.
So Japan needs more people because their pension system is unsustainable. And when all the immigrants who came in get old, Japan will need even more immigration to make up for the immigration they had before, and all the new pensioners.

This is not sustainable. This is a Ponzi scheme. Continually kicking the can down the road.
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I thought lightning was just code for "Off-Chain transactions processed by someone else".

Reading here:
https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-for-beginners/what-is-the-...

I still get that impression:

>The Lightning Network is a second layer added to Bitcoin’s (BTC) blockchain that allows off-chain transactions, i.e. transactions between parties not on the blockchain network.

Can you help me understand how this will be different than Visa/Paypal with occasional commits to the chain?
It’s not, on Leetcode. I submitted it as an answer and it worked. In the case where the number is repeated more than once (m times), you have an array of n+m elements. Divide the sum by m, subtract, problem solved.
Vox Populi has added SO MUCH, especially in the AI
I don't think so. But there can be de facto freedom speech.
"It's okay when we do it" is so rampant on political forums. They instinctively react against anyone bringing up 'Whataboutisms' and 'slippery slope', like they are taboo arguments.

People are far too willing to take significant risks just to get emotional gratification and appease their own outrage. Usually it's delivered with a blind trust in the system (the sort of trust you'd normally never hear re the police), that it will somehow be used mostly for good, the scope won't expand indefinitely, and the false positives are just a cost of doing business.
Rhine set to become virtually impassable at a key waypoint later this week
Funny. People here are conjecturing why one open codes the comparison instead of calling strcmp() presuming it's C when `ls` was written in assembler where calling a C function like strcmp() is far more onerous (and slow) vs. comparing to an immediate (cmpb, bne).
It depends on what you’re measuring and especially what income levels but https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-myt... gives you the general idea of what to look for.

In general, Americans pay less in total taxes but we give that back with much greater expenses for things like healthcare & drug costs, retirement, education, etc. At the top end that works out in your favor but there’s no equivalent for things like our rates of medical bankruptcy for everyone below the highest income levels.
I believe both reasons may be valid. Although with all of the world happenings, I figured the C suite was having a summit of sorts to figure out where they are and where they would like to go.
I argue about this a lot. Some reasonably substantiated opinions:

1. Highly sophisticated large-scale static analysis keeps getting beaten by relatively stupid tricks built into overgrown instruction decoders, working on relatively narrow windows of instructions.

2. The primary reason for (1) is that performance is now almost completely dominated by memory behavior, and making good static predictions about the dynamic behavior of fancy memory systems in the face of multitasking, DRAM refresh cycles, multiple independent devices competing for the memory bus, layers of caches, timing variations, etc. is essentially impossible.

3. You can give up on a bunch of your dynamic tricks and build much simpler more predictable systems that can be statically optimized effectively. You could probably find an good local maxima in that style. The dynamic tricks are, however, unreasonably effective for performance, and have the advantage that they let you have good performance with the same binaries on multiple different implementations of an ISA. That's not insurmountable (eg. the AOT compilation for ART objects on Android), but the ecosystem isn't fully set up to support that kind of thing.
My annoyance is that they create any 'helpful' directories.
It's just as bad on Windows.
"Download", "Pictures", "3D crap", etc....

Nope, fuck that.

This is my $home, I'll make it look how I want.
I had a computer in the pentium 3 days that eventually would not turn on while upright. Laying the case flat (as you would when opening it up to root around looking for the problem) would allow it to turn on again. Once on it could be set upright and keep running till next boot up.

This was only discovered after several months of intermittent frustrating debugging.
The grandparents are caring for 4 kids under 6 daily in millions of American families?

Also, most grandparents in fact are in working age when the grandkids are small. Some are sick, some never returned to work after kids grew, but quote a few always worked or returned to work. And even with those who are at home, asking them for daily babysitting of 4 kids is quite a lot.
PostgreSQL 14.5 has been released
What do you suggest instead? Should companies that offer a free plan have legal obligation to continue the service for at least three years?

Also, how is that deception? Most startups never claim that their plans will be forever free and unlimited.

How I see it, free comes with risks. If you want less risk, choose a paid service.

(Obviously the situation is different for open source projects that don’t have money and that are already run by volunteers.)
For every proposed crypto use case, there already exists a better solution that does not use crypto currency technology.
I can recommend Teeworlds (CTF modes) for casual office gaming. I've organized a tournament once and got my ass kicked in the final matches (2v2 CTF) as people improved really quickly.
Racist take: if one Japanese bayonets a child, we should nuke them all.
could, but won't. should, but shorn't.
That's why some files like gitignore and clang-format start with a dot? Some old way of hiding the file?

How bizarre. I had no idea it was actually related to the . and .. files.
Sure but most of the implementations are commercial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network#Implementati...
Ah, that is right. I apologize, I think I've learned that three times now, but for some reason my brain refuses to accept it.

I like that previous editions get new features when possible, unlike say C++, but I wish they'd gone with semantic versioning for the language version, like python did when both 2 and 3 were active. Oh well, I just need to remember that the edition is like the major version, and compiler version is sort of like minor version, and both are needed to specify forwards compatibility.
The only reason we should have free speech is protect speech people don't like. If everyone only said speech everybody else agreed with there would be no reason to have free speech protections.

What happens if in the future your opinion on something is considered as bad as homophobia or Nazism?
Hi HN, I wrote this article because I didn't find much on the internet comparing network performance between cloud providers. I was surprised to see the amount of separation between the top performers and the bottom ones.

We published our benchmarking script on Github[0], I'd love to see results from other geographies and perhaps even other providers like Linode and Hetzner!

[0] https://github.com/hathora/cloud-network-benchmark
Not to mention in Europe credit card fees are capped to 0.2% of transaction value.

Americans at getting screwed with their "reward" cards.
alias ls='ls -a'
Asking this on social media is a fun choice! That said, I have stopped using several other more-toxic social media outlets, and am much happier for it.

I'd probably be even happier if I left HN, but, you know, it's hard.
It's the only modern OS that can still be also installed on VAX. You can try it yourself with OpenSIMH[1][2][3]. I struggled to successfully setup network though - for some reason it wasn't working as expected.

[1] https://github.com/open-simh/simh/

[2] https://pbraun.nethence.com/obsolete/software/simh.html

[3] https://www.netbsd.org/ports/vax/emulator-howto.html
If crypto was the default we would all be amazed at this improved system of having fraud insurance, rewards for spending, customer service, and fast transactions.
Alaska gets a lot of money from natural resources. New Hampshire gets a lot of money from property taxes. They do have sales tax on a few items, but call it something else (I think restaurants and hotels?). I don't know about the other states.
How is it better? I can't buy anything that I actually want with cryptocurrency. There's no paperwork for my traditional bank accounts and everything is already automated and fast. The programming language they use on the back end is utterly irrelevant to customers, we never see it. Nothing wrong with COBOL anyway, it still works fine.
I'm concerned by the fact that Amazon can delete files from a device I bought. How is this related to your comment? I don't see
I agree, and a few other comments here also say that the call that executives are operational geniuses is far fetched. Most are sociopathic ladder climbers looking out for no one but themselves. Corporations aren't meritocracies - you don't work your way to the top by being better than anything other than working your way to the top. Organizations will also impose C-level hierarchies from other organizations they have previously worked at. So it's management by network and affiliation vs. by skill.

For presenting to executives, my experience is: present quickly. Focus on what they personally care about, whether or not it's what the organization is (supposed to) care about. Get to the point. Repeat your point. make your ask clear. BLUF and BLAB. If you don't know what that means, look it up. If you're not clear about what you want, don't be surprised if you don't get it. Appeal to ego. Understand rivalry. People support what they feel like is in their personal best interest to support.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2022/...

It’s a tricky read, but a gist might be that most Brits are generally well-meaning, fairly uninformed, and tend to be conservative when asked questions about specific scenarios:

“Recognition: most Britons say that people should be able to change their social gender, but are split on whether they should be able to change their legal gender”

“Process: Britons oppose making it easier to legally change gender“

“Access to sport: Britons oppose transgender athletes taking part in sporting events for their new gender”

“Access to treatment: Britons are split on the NHS providing hormone therapy for trans people, and tend to oppose it providing gender reassignment surgery”
Link https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv
Don't forget that stack overflow has an interest in developers continuing to use code!
I really like the ideas behind podman but they were not able to get enough feature parity with docker fast enough for my org. We use rancher desktop now for local development with Docker underneath. It would be cool if they added podman support in Rancher Desktop.
You mean, into the harbor? Yes!