skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to this merge at least theoretically you could have a consortium of people collaborate to combat centralization.

Now, all big players have to do to print money is nothing. It is now actually impossible to ever overcome the mechanisms.

My young son the other day said “I’ll get money from the store and buy what ever I want”.

I explained you had to exchange work for money. So you can work for the store, then they give you money to buy things.

Then I thought about how banks or large lenders just give people money. They magically create a loan, which people have to pay back with interest. The bank assesses the risk they won’t and profit they want and that’s the interest rate. The FED works the same way, just handing out money. Those people don’t work for their money. They just get free labor for controlling the money.

Here it’s like the store printing money at 5-8% a year or what ever just for having money in the bank. They can then spend 4% or what ever of that and still always guarantee growth in their money supply. It’s the exact same.

Theoretically, someone can make something the store finds valuable enough in the real world to trade their reserves. However, they’d have to find it more valuable than the static growth rate.

The difference in POW is that anyone can enter the market. And large lenders won’t have an advantage. Sure they could PAY for more processing power, but they have no advantage of printing money over the next guy.
Stopping the metastatic surge cancer cells undergo, forming new tumor micro-environments (TME, angiogenesis), are probably the main areas research should focus on to radically boost long-term survival. We need to move cancer from a fatal condition to a chronic condition.

We're sloooowly getting there with antibody drug conjugates like pembrolizumab (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembrolizumab), but what truly causes metastatic spread (epithelial–mesenchymal transition) is still a mystery!
Show HN: Effortlessly create on-demand staging environments in your own cloud
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I should add that Adobe used to be loved by us nerds. They always had management issues, I think, and developed a reputation as a software sweat shop I think; but back up until the mid or even late 90s they were seen as a high quality software maker with innovative products. Photoshop & Illustrator were untouchable, and they were seemingly inspired by and made best on the Mac so helped make the Mac kind of a hip "creator" platform.
I'm ideally a medium tall (MT) but that size is a unicorn (doesn't exist). LT sometimes doesn't look too baggy but they're so rare I don't even bother searching for them in most clothes stores.

When a store has a big and tall section it's literally big AND tall, not normal and tall. If you are 2m (6'7") tall you better weigh 300lbs if you want a shirt that fits.
It seems like the western world has the exact opposite housing policy to China.

China has completely built out cities just waiting for hundreds of millions of people to move in, but we enrich boomers by subsisting and effectively subsidizing mortgages from the same suburbs built in the 60s and 70s.
Oh yeah UberEats was one of the first notification permissions to go. Sorry I’d rather check my phone every 2 minutes when awaiting delivery than deal with you on the other 95% of days.
Adobe will use Figma as a bridge between Creative Suite and Experience Cloud for bigger creative/mkt agencies and enterprises. I doubt they will destroy Figma, but the focus will be different.
we would get it in the Richmond. The thickest fog in the bay area right I know if is always around Skyline between Westmoore and Hickey - it still gets that thick there.
I was shocked when I was talking with my grandma and she mentioned her mortgage when she bought her house was 18%. This was a couple years ago when I was looking and rates were around 4%. Blew me away.
People are suicidal enough in cars now. I think anything can get normalized pretty quickly.
For once it would be nice if someone would value a world in which their baby isn’t ruined by a big competitor, more than a world in which they have 20B in their bank account.

But I’ve yet to see that happen.
You have described a router with Wireguard on it, a pretty common configuration.
> With that said, I do think crypto has a chance of offering things that the current financial institutions will find very difficult to compete with. I’d love to see Visa reduce their fees to a flat $0.01 per transaction but that that would massively reduce their profits.

That's 60 times lower than Ethereum's transaction fee. Now, an L2 service could go lower but then they're taking on more risk which they'll want to be paid for and it's basically reinventing Venmo or Square Cash.

> Also, with a standardized financial API it opens the door to more competition in other areas. For example, a fairer and more transparent alternative to credit scores. Current credit score providers rely on the fact that their system is opaque. Competing with a transparent credit score would be very difficult.

There are two problems here. The most obvious is that it's at cross-purposes with privacy but the more subtle one is that as people build layers on top of the Ethereum network to compensate for design deficiencies, that transparency evaporates and you're left with the same need for individual companies to share data with each other and near-certainty that in the absence of regulation they will do so even when it's not in their customers' best interest.
I don't think the IRS agents will catch the guy in the article who allegedly lives and works in England, but actually lives in Thailand and works in England :)
The Web is a shitshow

What does Brave do about the cookie crap?
I don't recall a book per se, although I read a number of them in the 90's (Code Complete, Pragmatic Programmer, ...). In my case, practice and the necessity of maintaining code led/forced/encouraged me to get better at writing code that was clear and (eventually) more robust. They might write about this, but until you're standing in that swamp watching the alligators approach that you are properly incentivized to get better.

But remember from The Soul of a New Machine, "Not everything worth doing is worth doing well. Everything not worth doing is not worth doing well..."
good for figma employees, founders and investors
If you like improvised films, you might enjoy Mike Leigh. His films are very heavy though. I don't know if I have a favorite, but Happy-Go-Lucky is as good to start with as any. His films are more structured in that he workshops them with the actors first, so maybe they are more a collaboration than improvised.
I think that the fitness app is more strategic than figma by far.
When I learned basic in school, the teacher taught to use subroutines, right after flow control statements.
This is exactly how I look at new tech too. Makes me crazy when something new could work but doesn't for stupid reasons.
As I mentioned in the readme it's a work in progress. But every feature that's shipped is tested with Chrome, Firefox, and Webkit [1]. I'd like to get your feedback though so if you want to open an issue I'll be happy to deal with it.

[1] https://github.com/dflex-js/dflex/actions/runs/3025464183
Serious answer: Wherever you choose to live, you benefit directly or indirectly from services paid through taxes. Maybe your employer doesn't care where you live, but the jurisdiction where YOU are does care about where you work because you are being paid but you are not paying what others around you are paying to live there. This is a 3-sided relationship between you, your employer, and the civil society you live in and WFH in a different country is unfair to one side of that triangle.
Not quite as simple as "two boxes" but there are a bunch of 'travel routers' that have vpn clients on them. They're totally transparent to your devices and your home router probably has a compatible vpn server on it.
To be fair to the authors of the article the majority of people who buy homes are buying with a mortgage. Cash buyers are the minority.

To add to that if you were a cash buyer, yes its cheaper than last year but I would probably hold because theres lots more to come out of this market as the rates go up and the sustained pressure of higher mortgage rates filter through peoples personal costs.

I'm just happy that people buying home property strictly for speculative purposes are feeling heat. I'm looking at REITs etc.
> Many of them who haven't yet told their employer that they now live 5+ different timezones away.

In other words, there's probably a lot of tax evasion and fraud going on.
The High Price of Smaller Features
It's not even a bad deal for the bank, they sold your mortgage to a bond long ago and collect some fees.
I wonder how many viruses were created by AV companies though? :)
To be fair, the GI bill was originally passed in 1944 and HUD was created in 1965, so the GP's statement "I've never seen any policy actions in the US that indicate housing is supposed to be affordable" could still hold true for anyone under 57.
New York is bad. California is pretty rough too. But Louisiana and Mississippi both have higher Gini coefficients than California. It's not tech and finance that made Louisiana and Mississippi the 2nd and 3rd least equal states in the country.
The north and south exits to the roundabout are 10.5m across, including the traffic islands; the west exit is 5m across. The 4-way junction you've linked to, the exits are 9.5-11 meters across.
I don't care how it will do as an investment, I don't like paying thousands of dollars a month to somebody else in the form of rent.
> stocks are only worth something now because future rubes will buy them for more later

Stocks are valuable because they are a claim on the assets and future profits of a company, as well as a claim on the ownership and control of the company.

Some people buy stocks just in the hope that a Greater Fool will buy them for more money later, but that's not the same thing as calling stocks in general a "ponzi scheme".
Assuming rates go down.
It is very hard to get approval to be a bank and they are highly regulated. Many in crypto liked the idea of being able to run a bank out of their bedroom similar to any other SaaS business. Like many jokes, a truth told sideways can be quite funny.
I'm mixed on this, because US cities + towns are already at a significant disadvantage when it comes to their inherent pleasant-ness/beauty when compared to a lot of cities and towns in European countries. If we didn't defend some level of standards it'd be a far worse utilitarian mess.

I do love the US but so many of our cities really are garbage... they stink, buildings are dirty from pollution, roads are littered with potholes and trash, etc. I really don't get why people love NYC that much unless you grew up in the environment and view it as normal.
cant you put a mail subdomain outside of cloudflare and not deal with that? sure your email ip is exposed but its hosted on linode or something so whats the worst an attacker can do? ddos linode?
> production cost is tied up in blocks, not transactions

Fixed costs are amortized. The block's footprint is spread across transactions. Arguing otherwise is like someone taking the power bill of a bank to infer the cost per teller-window transaction, and the manager arguing that teller-window transactions don't burn energy, branches do. Yes, sure. But also irrelevant.

And yes, if the branch tripled in size its energy use would reduce the per-teller energy footprint. (Assuming constant transaction volume.) But that's a hypothetical.
it's a bit counterintuitive that something can be good for a company (or companies) AND bad for the customers of said company...

shouldn't something that is bad for a customer of a company be bad for the company too?
I'm waiting for the next 1906 earthquake and fire to move there.

That will really encourage development!
Which then turns this kind of adventure into deliberate (tax and other) fraud with all the consequences that might entail.
They ruined Macromedia as well. Fireworks was a fantastic hybrid vector/bitmap editing tool perfect for web work.
The people staking get richer at the same rate on average as everyone else staking.
> Psychologically, it's rather wearying to repeatedly answer questions from non-technical folks with variants on "that solves a problem we don't have" or "that would cost much more than what we do right now".

Even worse is when there's a technical person with more pull than you who's built an identity around being "an X professional", where X is some overhyped-and-unimpressive-for-general-use thing. You end up feeling like fucking Cassandra: able to perfectly predict the future, but everyone who matters ignores you.
And either Youtube Vanced or Newpipe if you are watching on Android
I did switch jobs 10 times in 12 years and constantly asked for more raises, bargained hard during hiring and always delivered above and beyond. I was always highly regarded by my colleagues. Doesn't matter. Company founders usually treated me terribly. In my last job, the founders said that I was essential but then when I asked for a raise plus more responsibilities and told them that it was a deal breaker otherwise, they refused. In spite of being flush with millions of funding. The CTO even threatened with violence. Their business has been going downhill since I left and the CTO has since turned members of the industry against me as revenge for leaving... In spite of the fact that my work exceeded expectations (by the CTO's own admission). To rub salt into the wound, their company was using an open source project which I had built for free (a popular project with almost 6k stars on GitHub).

You're jumping to conclusions. Society does not work how you think.

The fact that you cannot conceive the system as unmeritocratic and try to blame me without knowing anything about me suggests that you are probably one of the lucky few who has been given special treatment. Maybe in your peer group, one would HAVE to have done something incorrectly to end up in my situation. In my peer group, nobody ever succeeds no matter how good they are or what they do. I suspect that the difference in perception is likely rooted in widespread algorithm-based discrimination based on your social connections to rich or powerful people.
Another jump is happening as you read this article. It is called the METAVERSE, and it will change how everything works.
Also the tests are regularly updated/changed/made more difficult to prevent engineering to the test alone
Sure, buying doesn't always result in a positive return, but renting is guaranteed to not. Housing is usually a decent investment.
I could not tolerate facebook anymore if not for ?sk=h_chr!
In one year you’ll be one year older. Won’t you wish you’d invested in yourself, org, and community?

It’s a marshmallow test for adults.
Well, I was very vague but still identified myself to a few friends in a trusted server using subtle cues like the cloud emoji. This was a mistake in hindsight because I'm sure they could put two and two together, but it also made me realize how dedicated they are to keeping me away that they're now watching the server I join for any sign of me.

There should have been no other link to me, no fingerprint. This was an environment that has never touched Discord.

As of now I set up a new account that is less-than-discreet, obviously me if they're paying attention, and another account that is very discreet, on a VPN. I'm testing to see if an Android work profile is leaking anything. If both accounts get disabled, then it's back to the drawing board. If the not-so-discreet account gets disabled, the work profile is working and I'm on the right track. Although it sucks to have to abandon my friends and identity over this nonsense, just to stay hidden and be fearful of seeing that damn login screen again.

Hey, if neither get disabled in the next, say, month, maybe this Violet person was fired or they gave up. I can only assume it's them if they're the ones intercepting my appeals every time.
legally binding scripts
And the search input doesn't allow disabling auto-uppercase.
It takes less time, as the PIN is entered before the receipt is even printed.
> On top of that, neither of these FOSS alternatives have done nothing to combat the move to online versions of Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Figma, etc. since there is no need for the user to install anything which will always be ahead of manually installing these apps.

The point of FLOSS software is not to prevent proprietary tools from existing, it's to make sure that a Free&Open alternative exists if you don't want them.
Slightly off topic, but the US FDA has just approved an analog of the miraculous ketamine depression treatment. Basically you can chug a 4oz /100 ml of dextromethorphan (US brand "Delsym") for the same effect, a couple of weeks' absolute relief via a poorly understood metabolic pathway. "If it works, it works."

I will be eager to hear about others' results. (No effect, + or -, for me, on a smaller dose. Do, always, start with a smaller dose, in case it works badly for you; and check warnings on drug interactions carefully.) Maybe ask your Dr.
PHP also has support several Berkeley-style databases: https://www.php.net/manual/en/dba.requirements.php
I was sarcastic about the "expert" part. Those commenters were not merely wrong, they were spreading misinformation. To actual experts, Ethereum's move to PoS has been a certainty for many years now.
I am of the belief that these over-aggressive advertising strategies are basically saying "hey, TikTok, it's time for you to be #1"

I worry that this is basically the end of YouTube
> Shareholders are a miniscule subset of the general public.

You mean shareholders of Adobe? Sure. But the rest of the population see how it applies to their own shareholdings. According to Gallop polling earlier this year, 58% of Americans own stock. I speculate you'll find even more owning stock indirectly (pensions, etc.).

Or do you mean in other countries? America certainly ranks much higher than many other countries with regards to what portion of the general public are interested in such matters. Which is no doubt why it is more relaxed about such things. This probably wouldn't fly in many other countries, but those countries are not where this is taking place.
quick take, wouldn't it potentially compound the blogspam? Probably one of the largest providers of RSS these days are WordPress installs.
LiteFS/Litestream author here. LiteFS will scale to zero with a persistent volume attached. For short-lived instances (aka serverless), we still have a few more features to complete on the road map (e.g. S3 replication, synchronous replication) to make that work well. Pure serverless (e.g. Lambda, Vercel) is also something we plan to support but we want to get LiteFS working well on more traditional deployments (e.g. longer running instances, Kubernetes, etc) first.
Doom in a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico
I feel your pain. My son has had a >20" neck since he was mid-teens, on an otherwise typical big-guy build (6'3", was 240lbs in high school, now a good bit more). Custom dress shirts required, not even stuff from the B&T shops fit.
However you can write off your mortgage interest payments as a tax-deductible expense, which you don't benefit from as a renter; plus you're building equity that you can then resell later. There are always exceptions, but generally in the long run, at least in the US, you're much better off owning than renting.
These came much later though.
It's true that the HTML drag and drop API is pretty limited for more complex interactions. I recently did a lot of searching for a drag and drop library for a board game I'm working on and almost went with DFlex. I decided to go with DnD Kit because of its powerful React API. However, I'm very glad there's a vanilla JS solution as well with DFlex.
Computing for the Health of the Planet
So true.

Rando popular freeware suddenly has an installer from hell and so on.
I think everyone would prefer Figma to continue to be an independent business that challenges and competes with Adobe, forcing both products to be better.
"Learn you a Haskell for Great Good" by Miran Lipovača.
Googlers sharing horror stories about Amazon's 'frupid' and aggressive culture
That's why there should be laws requiring large services to provide due process for users who have invested significant time and energy into the platform.

Its just common sense that a spam bot should be nuked on sight but a legitimate user should get a fair hearing before you ban them. Ideally the social media platforms would do something akin to Wikipedia's arbitration committee (basically the Supreme Court of Wikipedia) but scalable by hiring a suitably diverse pool of "unskilled" people for a $15 an hour or so remote job where they decide if a longtime legitimate user should be banned. I think this system would do a much better job of avoiding false positives. A properly functioning spam bot detector shouldn't be detecting any legitimate longtime users whatsoever.

Banning email addresses without sufficient notice to allow accounts tied to that email to be moved to another email should be illegal. You should also have a legal right to access your digital purchases even if your account is banned. There's nothing wrong with not wanting a customer any longer but you shouldn't be able to cause irreparable harm to your customer on their way out the door and there should be safeguards in place to ensure you don't fire any customers by mistake.
Vanity vs Value SaaS
ML and Haskell are languages with garbage collection. In case of Haskell it is also pure and lazy which makes it a huge PITA to use for any non-trivial non-hierarchical datastructures. You can look at Okasaki's book to see what level of mental gymnastics is needed to make it usable in some cases.

Neither C++ now Rust can help you self-referential datastructures through types. In both you have either give up any help from compiler. Or pay some price for runtime checks (via shared_ptr/weak_ptr in C++ or their friends Rc/Weak in rust). Exactly like the ones described in the article.

Concepts, Rust traits, Haskell Type classes provide close to 0 help with memory management. These are a typesafe way to write generic code.

Things which do help with memory management at the language level (with 0 runtime costs) are Rust's borrow checker (and more generally(?) linear/affine types), F* proofs, and dependant types (you can prove index bounds with them to some extent). All of them are useful, but can't really model all interesting programs (i.e. you have to sidestep typesystem and just tell compiler "I know that I am right").
Covid-19 Illnesses Are Keeping at Least 500k Workers Out of U.S. Labor Force