skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems to me that block chains will win at the things they are good for a bit the way git won at version control: decentralised systems just require lower overheads and less barrier to entry in general, so people just automatically use them.

Git really only had an inflection point of adoption when Github came out and offered a really compelling centralized service. Before Github, there wasn't a huge drive to move away from SVN (there was some but it was more because the new decentralized ones were better in other ways besides being decentralized and fixed some annoying bugs that SVN had) and it was much less certain that git would win out over mercurial or bazaar or one of the others.

My experience at the time was also that the decentralized nature of git/hg/etc was arguably a barrier to their adoption. Existing teams were used to a workflow with a central repository and it wasn't clear how you would replace that with these decentralized tools. You had to do a lot of work to come up with a new workflow for your team or you made a central server somewhere and tried to make them work as similarly as possible to a centralized system. I remember a lot of pushback on moving to git from people who didn't understand the whole decentralized thing and found it more confusing than what they were used to. And with Github, that seems to be the approach that the vast majority of the world has gone with. Yeah, you can use git as a fully decentralized tool and there are people who prefer that to using Github, but that's pretty uncommon compared to how many teams just centralize with Github.
Sweetest ten seconds of anticipation in your life. Great story!
We do not know the end game of nukes. Whatever life is "saved" can easily be obliterated further down the line.
That was the point. You were being mocked for your naïveté.
If they aren't good at their job or it is status quo, they will brush it off. Sometimes it takes a new perspective to say what the fuck is wrong with this?

As an example, I joined a company with ~8k employees recently. They over communicate on email. I get 50+ emails a day. I filter heavily. My inbox is still unusable due to the volume of automated junk. I raised this issue in Slack and the majority of responses were just "well, that's how it is".

I am sure the development process has very similar deficiencies that I am blind to because I participate in it everyday.
My rent is down about 10% from pre-pandemic prices.
Right, they could get lots of money by getting teams to work, then work better than slack, maybe then think of metaanything. There's already a large number of people who will not even try teams due to reputation from others. Thinking MS can innovate from there is silly.
It can be learned quickly, it's very readable, and taught to students without too much pain, and beginners can become productive with it.

The "difficulty bar" must be low. This is why english is a popular language.

> I'd argue C isn't significantly faster at any of these than most other languages.

Yes it is. It has a lot of flaws, but it's popular for all those other reasons.
The unregulated free market mostly produces goods and services at less cost for the producer, which huge external costs to everything else.
MD5 and ShaX are available in almost every language. Things that are probably better (like Murmur3) might not be, or may even have different hashes for the same thing (C# vs JS with Murmur3, for example). I had to reimplement Murmur3 in C# to get the hashes to match from JS, it boiled down to the C# version using longs and eventually casting to an int while JS can’t or didn’t do that final cast.
I agree, it's probably the one use-case where it can be useful and ease the process: funding things anonymously as to circumvent the scope of the law/avoid the eyes of the authorities, far easier with Monero really. This includes funding politically persecuted individuals as well as buying drugs or other things. After all it's mostly what it's been used for (if we ignore speculation), though so far mostly through BTC and the dark web networks of obfuscation.
Didn't know that! Can you upload custom dictionaries to them? That was my only gripe with how Kindles do it - they support this feature in some languages but not others.
I also wanted to start using Openplacereviews a few days ago, but according to a discussion in an OSM/Osmand Matrix channel its development seems to have mostly come to a standstill.

A recommended alternative is Mangrove [1] which allows anonymous cryptographically verified reviews, but I have neither had a closer look yet nor given it a try so far.

[1] https://mangrove.reviews/
> The primary benefit here is minimizing the 2-30% take-rates of current intermediaries

Why would said intermediaries spend R&D time and money implementing a system that reduces their take rate??

> to set rules in smart contracts

Why exactly does this need to run on a generic chain like ETH with unnecessary overhead and fees, to function?
If you make decisions that leads to you making money but causes problems for users then you will get bad press, simple as that. People would rather not use a free service at all instead of migrating and later be forced to migrate to another service again because it got too expensive, so any such strategy is user hostile. It is more user friendly to be upfront with what users needs to pay, of course the initial free is good for growth but still it is user hostile growth.
This has been discussed many times before.

The problem is that "the first cause is God" is not based on anything. It is perfectly fine to ask "If everything has a cause, then what caused God?".

Then there's two options. One is that it's "turtles all the way down" - God1 caused God. And God2 caused God1. And that goes on, forever.

The other option is "God caused himself". Which is similar to being "the first cause", but here's the difference: at that point, we have admitted an exception to the "everything has a cause" rule, which is that "some things can cause themselves". At which point one might as well make that decision earlier and conclude "The Universe Created Itself", not needing God at all.
Here is a cool infograph to put the methane budget in context:

https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/1561/2020/essd-12-15...

One question I raise is how much of the methane leaks related to oil & gas activity also include accurate data on abandoned oil/gas wells?

The method described in the paper should perhaps in the future confirm the accuracy of the current estimates.
Yes. We need to develop easier ways of deploying self-hosted apps, which unfortunately isn't happening now because of a "I need demand to create demand" cycle that someone has to kick off. Panels like portainer are already a step in the right direction.
I know, right? Poorer people should just suck it up instead of having the option to get it cheaper. Wait another month to buy it and don’t offend my aesthetics.
In case anyone wants to watch the event without tracking it down on ESPN, you can jump to the YouTube version if it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1RVNGDSdw4
Them owning real estate keeps the real estate off the market, thereby increasing the price for everyone else.
I never said it did. Just that people tend to learn from their mistakes. Are there people who will make the same mistake different ways over and over again? Yep (I’m one of them). It’s not an issue, I learn and get better at spotting the mistake when I review other’s code and others point it out when reviewing my code. That’s why I said “exactly once” since once you know what it looks like, you can spot it in a review.
All those international companies already using internal blockchains for all kinds of stuff tend to disagree.
If someone is convinced that climate change will kill us all then I'd say they're not exceptionally smart to begin with, and are misattributing to cynial high intelligence that which is the much more common phenomenon of media-induced blind hysteria.
This is a policy problem, not a technical one. They'll keep WKWebView around but only for non-browsing purpose. Anything that resembles a web browser, SFSafariController or rejection.
Show HN: Proxy.py
[Not my project]

A very well features proxy server (Forward & Reverse + lots of other features).

https://github.com/abhinavsingh/proxy.py
I feel like that explains why it happened with chat. That it's now happening with their entertainment offerings suggests nothing was learnt.

The organisational incentives might be structured such that it will continue, but surely leadership would've put something in place to prevent recurrence, despite those incentives? I would expect every launch, shutdown & rebrand to now be going through senior leadership approval, but maybe that hasn't happened yet.
A classic.

A few threads that have had traction in the past:

(2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25926136

(2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818537

(2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15476733

(2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10306335

The Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
I think their definition of "Apeasement" they linked above can specifically only be used when talking about an "aggressive power" (cf. wikipedia)

Thus, to solve the problem of what would be "apeasement", you need to resolve the question or which of the parties involved (Russia, Ukraine, "the West", the US, etc.) should be considered "aggressive".

And that's why this question, which i think is an attempt to understand who the aggressive party/parties are in your opinion, is not a change of subject
Disclaimer: I work at Hashicorp, not on Nomad (but I've been a fan long before joining) opinions my own, etc.

> dns integration with cloud providers

You have that, with an intermediary in the form of Consul Terraform Sync (runs Terraform based on events in Consul like new service or node - so you can have a terraform module doing your DNS integration, another opening firewalls, etc. all run after a service has been added/updated).

> Better out of the box validation/linting

How so? Both do fine client side validation/linting out of the box.

Ephemeral containers would be really cool to have.
Great comment, I'd like to add:

Industrial-scale data guzzling is exactly like every vicious playground rumour (or vindictive people you may still be unlucky to know). Think back to school and remember how the bullies never forgot. How names and reputations were made instantly and never really shrugged. They used that information (demeaning anecdotes) to their benefit in every way they could. You had absolutely no control over the spread of rumours about you.

Imagine that, but on a much grander scale. I wish more people saw that it is the same kind of predation, probably perpetuated by the same types who have no conscience but are now adults.

Because the information is only valuable when tied to you, misuse of it is always against your interest. The use and handling of "personal data" is never neutral, even if "anonymised".
I'm less sympathetic: I wouldn't want to live next to a house that has opted out of sewage service.
> Can’t roll back to an earlier version because Steam.

I haven't tested it with Civ 6 cause I don't have it, but it works for several other games I've tried: How to Download Older Versions of a Steam Game https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=88962...
I have the same. Have you tried using KOreader? https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Po... recent versions really improve the reading experience over the default reader app.
Maybe, but plenty of RHEL8 packages still package versions from 10+ years ago.
Well they already got profits on their bookstore, why would they need to make a version where you got ads on top of that. I guess if we follow your logic they could build phones, consoles and TVs with ads too. I can understand free books with ads but not the hardware/software that reads it.
Life within the current means of humanity is not good.
Why anyone with a hobby does their hobby
The overdrive and epub support was the reason for me buying the kobo even after already owning a kindle. Still worth it just for the overdrive support.
Humility? Prove that we as a species are intelligent by not living beyond our means?
The more important thing is to be fair to users when you are moving the goalposts. Grandfathered pricing and long notice periods for instance.

I can accept that services change, but it’s not reasonable to create an unplanned panic for customers needing to migrate infrastructure or pay up under time duress.
Also, if you buy the one with ads (because it's cheaper), you can literally just go on amazon customer support chat and ask them nicely to turn them off. It's worked for the few kindles I've owned
Can you at least upgrade or you get stuck with ads until the end?
Let me pass these news to Tether okay.
You are talking as if open source was a single entity. This doesn't make any sense.
Where will you take your GitLab repos now?
I used a Kobo for a long time and I just bought a Kindle, because it was so hard to get articles on the Kobo. They stopped supporting direct file transfers from Mac, so I was left with Pocket, and Pocket didn't think a lot of what I tried to save was "articles."

So far I find that for my purposes, the Kindle is way easier to get content onto, and there's quite a bit of content I want that I can just buy there, but couldn't buy for Kobo.

I hope to not get locked in to the Amazon ecosystem but as of right now, my cheapest-model Kindle is way more useful than my old top-of-the-line Kobo.
> Last time I was at Everest Base Camp nearly everyone had an e-ink kindle

that's not surprising.

it's the most popular e-reader.

anyway, base camp is not the top of the mountain :)

where they downloading e-books with the device 2g connection from there?

> The long battery life and light weight are ideal for long isolated stretches in the Himalayas.

modern e-readers last weeks on battery and weight less than 200 grams.
In frequentist statistics it's either 1 or 0 after the experiment (dice roll, card flip or universe creation). Either it happened or it didn't.
Given the module streams functionality in the package system in RHEL 8+, it's fairly plausible that it would be introduced using that path.

(Currently, there are 5 'container-tools' module streams listed, with podman versions including 1.0, 1.6, 3.0, 4.0 in stable streams, and 4.0.2 in the rolling stream.)
I think you are using a pretty narrow definition of the word “geek” - and I would probably classify 7 of the top 10 of having some level of “geekiness”.

They are just different kinds of geek - Warren Buffett is a geek, just a “securities-pricing geek” rather than a “tech-geek”
The problem is that these SaaS companies want their cake and eat it - get a big splash of PR and engagements up front via a great, free offering that sounds too good to be true, and then lock-in and squeeze once the value is realized by the user.

if you do start off with a set of limitations, it's not as big of a splash in initial user engagement, and you also end up with less network effect.

So it does make business sense to offer a bigger free plan and make that splash, despite having to pay for it later in bad press.
Why would I buy something that just shows up as a png in some menu?

Why would I accept a car bought in some other game as a developer trying to make money?

How would that even work? Need for speed and Forza for example have dramatically different driving models. Does sharing stats between those even make sense?

What about licensing deals? Money exchanges hands when real life brands are used in games. Not sure they'd be thrilled about some random other game using it all of a sudden.
I buy very, very few items of clothing. I hold on to things as long as I can.

And yet, every few years, I'll still have a few garbage bags filled with clothes that I need to dispose of. It may no longer fit me, in which case it might be suitable for donation, or it may have been damaged in some way that isn't feasible to repair.

Reducing use is great, but the only way to never need to dispose of clothes is to never buy any clothes.
I remember the last time I tried (nearly 20 years ago) I couldn't figure out how to play it in single player mode. It was asking for a server or something like that. Can I just click and play some meaningful single-player already?
I don't understand, Ubuntu releases new releases every 6 months? If you want the latest Docker/Linux kernel/whatever, just download the latest Ubuntu. They may be behind on one or two packages but that's it.

Normally you could also grab the releases from the source directly and let the upstream source figure out compatibility for you. However, it seems like the folks over at Podman have discontinued their external repository, so I guess they don't care about bringing new versions to Ubuntu either.
This should be powered by the IPL subscription in India for Disney. Thats huge..

But from this year, Disney lost the rights for ipl streaming. And numbers should come down..
Or maybe they could make it cheaper in the first place? They got a lot of profit from the ebooks already.
Promising beginnings for Australia’s newest supercomputer
I just updated from 4.1 to 4.2 on my M1 using Brew without an issue.
And Activision and EA would agree to this why exactly?
No GP is arguing that since the blockchain cannot solve any of the mentioned problems, it does not provide any real benefit. The dispute for companies today are seldomly about whether they signed a contract (the part the blockchain could help settle - though you still need to provide the legal entity -> cryptographic key mapping) but how to interpret the contract and align the legal world(words on a page) with the real world (widgets delivered, machines broken, etc.).

If the problem was about enforcing a signature, you do not need a blockchain, each party to a contract can just store the cryptographic signature themselves or with one or more trusted custodians. That is a fundamental feature of cryptographic signatures not blockchains. And then you need some mapping from legal entities to public keys, but this might as well be a centralized database run by the government (potentially outsourced to a private contractor), after all in many jurisdictions the government already keeps a list of legal entities and metadata about them.
It was cringe. When I first saw it, I couldn't make it past the first few sentences. He turned layoffs into a marketing post for his company or at least it appeared so since his company does LinkedIn content consulting. Hence, people didn't think it was genuine. And many commentators were right that he made it about himself.

People making the layoffs need to stop saying things like "I take responsibility. I made the choices. It was my fault". Saying this is an insult to the rest of the company and to the people being laid off. It's the company's responsibility. Hiring and firing is not a one-man show. If it is, then you're micromanaging. It also insults the people getting laid off because you're making it about you, as if you get to hire and fire anyone at anytime. If you truly take all the responsibility and blame, then set your compensation to $0 or much lower and keep as many employees as possible.

Apologize to the employees leaving as a company. Explain why. Tell them what happens next. Apologize again.

Don't insult them by making it about yourself.
https://organicmaps.app/ I use this, no reviews though
Damn, is that a recent development? Because I can recollect buying the game but don't remember actually playing it. It's very likely that have spent less than 2 hours on it. Would Valve let me return the game? Don't want ads, and additional launchers in my steam games.

I returned Crysis 3 a few years ago (because the Origin client wouldn't work correctly on my Linux machine) and have been steadily avoiding EA ever since.

Thanks for sharing.
>debt is a social construct

As opposed to what? A carbon based life form? A monster truck?

Yes literally every thing that humans interact with that isn't constructed of atoms is a social construct. Contracts, agreements, trades, transactions. Every single concept in finance and economics. This isn't a profound statement
> You probably have to assume there is a necessary substrate. What else can you possibly think?

That there's no necessary substrate.

> Contingency means being contingent on something else

Can't it just be "luck", then? Chaos just happened to take this form.

> At some point you will likely take it for granted that there must be something that is itself not contingent

Sorry but I don't agree. I think it is perfectly conceivable that everything is contingent and there's no "necessary substrate". For example: it could be that several factors (things like the gravitational constant and the different fundamental forces) are contingent on isolation, but when they are put together the ensemble becomes necessary. Like in a tensegrity structure (not saying that I think that's what happens to our Universe, just pointing out that there's other options besides "One necessary substrate", and we don't know which one is ours).
That's "ruthless, psychopathic, cyborg Gandhi clones" if you've been playing Civ long enough.
Of course, most of that just comes down to the game itself having rules that don't actually line up with the intended (for most people) gameplay experience.

Compare to Crusader Kings 3, which is nominally in the same general genre, but has rules that actively push you and the AIs into playing 'in character', because if you just ignore all the secondary stuff your attempts at conquest will almost certainly fall apart.
here we go:

https://blog.rust-embedded.org/newsletter-31/

autmotive (plastered with 1bn+$ companies) is actively exploring rust for functional safety, via AUTOSAR, and adacore and ferrous systems partner up for rust in ada-affine industries.

rust has this lovely habit of validating their compiler updates with their full collection of libraries, that's one step ahead of the validation contribution of SUSE, redhat, debian, canonical for common, linux packaged C/C++ libraries, because it happens on multiple OSs.

https://brson.github.io/2017/07/10/how-rust-is-tested

there is plenty of energy for formal verification of rust projects, too:

https://alastairreid.github.io/automatic-rust-verification-t...
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I'd support a carbon tax that's pegged to the concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere in some way, and rises exponentially with a linear increase in concentration.
Kobo only needs it to support transfers, and because it lacks emailing. If I want Overdrive, Dropbox and Pocket support, I have a smartphone for that.
I wrote this article on a very concise version of Snake. I found it fun, maybe someone else will as well :P
Chrome wasn't an acquisition, unless you count the company that only made sandboxes. But that hardly counts.

Photos wasn't really an acquisition. Yes they acquired Picasa but Google Photos has no real connection to Picasa.
That the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortened the war is actually highly disputeable. More general, this weighing of lives, especially the lives that might potentially be saved in the future againstvtaking lives now is an extremely slippery slope.

Edit: Both cities were, comparatively, intact at the point the nukes were dropped. e.g. Tokio wouldn't have done any good as it was already completely fire bombed. So Hiroshima and Nagasaki allowed to actually get real live data on the effect of two different nukes on actual cities.