skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On your prices, if the amount ends with a 0, you lop it off. So $12.40 becomes 12.4. Dollar prices require two decimals.
"The sun rises each morning" is also a provable fact but has no correlation (I guess) to the alleged ghosting of women by Indian men in the US. Again I'm not understanding the argument.
Is "cheapest" the right objective? Because if that's the case, book piracy seems like the clear winner.

But maybe we should consider "cheapest with some boundaries". For instance, we probably agree that bookstores are nice for a myriad of reasons, even if we don't frequent them. They employ people in the area, they offer curation and recommendations, they invite speakers and host events, and they help local authors get started. They may offer benefits or profit sharing.

But a physical space like that costs money. Experience costs money. Curation costs money (indirectly).

I'd argue that cheapest as a metric undercuts best as a metric. Cheap is one important input to the purchasing decision, but it shouldn't be the only one.

We have to learn to accept some inefficiencies and some personal inconveniences for the sake of a healthier social ecosystem.
I don't think many people are claiming that the goal should be "no inequality", and that's certainly not what one sees in Europe, so I don't think that argument is relevant.

Clearly society at large can still function in Europe with reduced inequality compared to America.
That's because everyone has forgotten the lessons from BitTorrent and the internet.

If you want something to be fast then your content needs to be hosted on servers with fast connectivity to other servers. And that's not possible when at the same time you're trying to avoid legal jurisdictions that will censor e.g. EU, US, CN etc.
Government is one of the primary reasons why housing is so expensive. In some areas, the cost to develop a plot of land has gone up 10x in as many years. Permit process is expensive and takes time. Laying utilities is expensive. Paying the myriad of fees is expensive.

In one place I lived, the cost of developing a plot of land for single family use was almost $70k, and that was not an expensive state like California.

And then mortgage rate hikes have to be considered. Buyers are walking away from contracts and homes being built because rate hikes made the homes unaffordable.

Less government is the solution, not more.
I wish the ipfs devs would stop wasting time with crypto and nfts.

I mean it's their lives but I like their work, except the silly crypto stuff.
I always choose PayPal when it's an option. Always works, I don't have to make a new Privacy card, and don't have to worry about a buggy form not submitting after I've filled it out. I appreciate you leaving it as an option.
I think so, proof of work is ideal for the development and cultivation of stranded energy.
I rather see the opposite. A society cannot live long if it has too much inequality. From inequality comes pressure, that forces the society to adapt or break.
HN people: Crypto has no use cases!

Also HN people: Stop wasting time trying to make legitimate use cases for crypto!
The part you are missing is that the entire system has to die for your specific data to be lost. That may happen, but it's a different risk than imagining that somebody is storing a single piece of data indefinitely for a single up front fee.

The risk and mispricing are socialized across the entire protocol into perpetuity.
From the description, the architecture is nicely modern.

It's also interesting to see a project that seems young to already be version 22.

What I tried to find and could not was some built-in language, more expressive than the one used to describe syntax highlighting. This means that extensibility is at best not a priority,
I think if you're really looking for permanence, the best bet is to make lots of copies using diverse storage systems -- including Filecoin, IPFS' own incentivized storage system, ArWeave, etc -- and then use a content-addressable protocol like IPFS as the front end to access them. That way, whatever system survives, you'll still be able to seamlessly locate and refer to your data.

(Full disclosure, I work for the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, which is certainly part of the wider IPFS Cinematic Universe.)
India's proposed digital rupee would be different from cryptocurrency
I recall reading somewhere in the event of an apocalypse you'd need at least ~150 breeding pairs of humans to be able to recover (I think that's with no safety margin either), and it would take generations of careful management to prevent inbreeding and genetic weirdness.

I wonder how many cats you'd need? I would think it would be much higher as I assume superfecundation would drastically increase the risk of inbreeding.
I think you might be confusing peoples desires of a physical book, vs bookstore?
There's a lot of good second hand things for very cheap available. See my other comment about coffee makers, for example.

What screws people without money is the expensive once off things that just always crop up. I have a decent job and I feel the burn, especially now with inflation, a once off surprise expensive can be deadly lately.

The accidental parking fines, the expensive medical bill, the new car tyre, the more expensive electricity etc. This IMO is more likely to create cyclical poverty than the ability to buy cheap things from Walmart(TM).
I don’t know. I never talked to other employees about the company.
Thanks for your comment, all of that is certainly true. I'm thinking through a solution that would likely come in the form of certain filters on the site. I'd try to get your region as accurately as possible or ask for input, and then serve you local bookstores in your area that have their catalogues online. Something like this would help promote local stores and help you differentiate between your local bookstores. It's not something I've started building yet but what do you think of it?
Not just likely. Definitely.
https://letterboxd.com/rurban/film/the-french-dispatch/
Not ergonomic enough, since you don't really know yet which region you want to be in. In my view, a hydra like structural navigation while having 'avy' on would be better
Ya, we can't really know, but I think it's fair to say that powerful though the CIA is, they can't synthesize these kinds of protests from nothing. So, even if the CIA did hack these TV stations to aid the protesters, it's something that could just as easily have been done organically too, so I'm not sure it really matters whether they did or didn't.
I’m in the third group.
Were you featured on NPR?
One honest question I'd have about this.

If we started buying stuff made in other countries because it was cheaper, then if we made that production come back to the U.S., wouldn't that mean that the prices would have to go back up? Just a thought experiment, but I'm unable to find a way around it.
Not sure what state you are in, but in California community colleges are fairly good. They can provide trade education together with apprenticeship programs. This system can close the gap for many tradesman jobs. It is not gonna happen in a year, but over next 10 years. In 2012 Jobs told Obama that those jobs aren’t coming back, around the time Tesla was able to pull off Models S. Iirc 52% of it was US made, which seems impressive.

It’s been almost two years since the dependency on import from very few country for critical things was widely exposed due to pandemic. This would be enough time to train someone junior or have them be half way through their apprenticeship.

Now we want to move to alternative energy source, which most likely means that solar and lithium batteries alone aren’t gonna suffice. At the same time, EU is learning the hard way why it’s not ideal for the energy sector to rely to heavily on a foreign irrational actor.

I think there is enough momentum to push the needle and see results in 5-10 years.
Ǹo, RACISM is not the answer to this question, nor to many other questions. What RACISM there is in the US is found in Europe as well, there is plenty of antisemitism in the USA (up to and including in the highest levels of the administration) so even in that respect the difference is marginal at best. The demand for RACISM far outstrips the supply of it which is made visible by the multitude of fake RACISM cries by those who wish to profit from it, very often at venues which can be assumed to harbour the least racism - universities, sports teams, the entertainment world, etc. This is being fuelled by a media which is intent on driving a narrative of increasing RACISM [1,2], part of the political establishment who grift on RACISM to gain voters, activist teachers who drive the same rhetoric as the media and use fake or lopsided sources - 1619 project, Howard Zinn, etc - and academia.

Also, writing RACISM in all capitals is quite annoying, almost as if you're writing agitprop [3].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/media-creating-false-perception-ris...

[2] https://nypost.com/2021/04/15/media-pushes-false-narrative-o...

[3] https://www.britannica.com/topic/agitprop
Is that the type system's fault or the whole Spring/dependency injection fault? You're using a typed language and making it behave in dynamic ways when using Spring (at least that's the impression I had when I looked at Spring).
Investors owning real estate has done more to move prices up than permits.

Investors buy a quarter of all stock and have an incentive to lobby for keeping supply low.

The solution is more government regulation reducing the number of units big investors can own, building small public housing units throughout their cities (not big projects), and making investing in property less appealing for big players via rent control, landlord tenant laws, zoning up, etc.
Maybe she can start taking jobs from https://www.fiverr.com/? I bet there are people out there who would not care much if she is junior or not, but would want to simply have the job done.
100% agreed. Whenever I see something being promoted as "cheapest" I try to stay clear. Not only because you often get what you pay for, but also for reasons like the one you mention.
Europe doesn't have case law, the law is written and codified so once you finish law school you have all the laws memorized. The judge can only apply specific paragraph of the law not create new ones. 1k is cheap yes, 5k would in such case be more reasonable to expect if you're in a similar situation if you go with a lawyer (depending on firm and location i.e. lawyer in big city vs provincial town)
Kodemo: Create Interactive Documentation
You're not alone, and I suspect TS crowd is still a vocal minority.

But TS is very viral by nature. You can only go in one direction (JS -> TS). TS promises "type safety", which is mostly a lie, but sounds really good. It also promises to be purely additive, so choosing it seems like a no-brainer. TS is a next step in a JS-engineer career, once you learn it it's hard to admit that it was a waste of time. Especially when there's nothing but praise around, humans are conformist by nature.

Being viral doesn't make it good. But it means that it will keep spreading, until community gets a TypeScript fatigue.
> ISPs and government agencies can't do anything because it's all anonymous

Same thing has been said about BitTorrent and Tor.

And yet governments have been able to de-anonymize file sharers.
Why not Clion for C?
Nice, are these gifs available in any publicly viewable way?
Given that intelligence tends to be correlated with overall fitness, I think IQ will always be something that will be at least somewhat selected for.
It's just date based versioning, so 22.08 is August, 2022.
No one wants more extensions
Yes, it's an inflationary effect for sure - deglobalization
I wasn't talking about recursion but composition. Can I write template A and then apply it to itself to get template B and then apply that onto template C to get template D.
The politics of immigration have always been toxic, see the quota system, or Archie Bunker, or 'Irish need not apply'. I think that reframing immigration as probably our biggest strategic asset historically might have some potential. If Jewish physicists had stayed in Europe, would we have nuclear supremacy? If Chinese laborers hadn't gone to California, would we have the Transcontinental railroad? Where would NASA be without the stolen German engineers?

The Democrats talk about it like it's charity and the humane thing to do, and the Republicans come back with 'first we have to take care of our own'. HN seems to understand this, but it isn't what makes the news.
Yes, I agree. But if you don't manage to prevent catching a disease with a long tail, what you need is guidance on how to mitigate the effects of that long tail.

Like the NHS provide: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/long-term...
Or farmland, because that's just unused space, right?
Whoa. Wonder if they’ll ship to Ireland. I can deal with smart -> neutered by not giving it Wi-Fi or Ethernet access..
Technically, both parties have to agree on a local rate that is comfortable. No one is putting a gun to your head to accept an offer. If you accept an offer, it is because you consider it advantageous to accept rather than reject.
Show HN: I built a site that tracks disc golf putting accuracy
This tool might be helpful for comparing pdfs: https://github.com/serhack/pdf-diff
Even simpler, if you enter that URL a number of times, the browser autocomplete will take you there after only typing the first 'g' of github.com.
One thing that makes me unsure about this theory is that I have the impression that tickling largely only works when the touch seems to have been volitionally initiated by a being we see as animate. I don't feel like it works the same way with a surprising touch from an inanimate object, or even a plant, even though that wasn't initiated or expected by ourselves.

Do other people not have this difference?
Isn’t the actual problem competition from factories overseas they have lower safety standards and wages? Just because there’s more housing doesn’t mean you suddenly have a good wage. You still have to save up for retirement, and some people invest in mutual funds instead of buying property
I don’t get the reference. Is this a Java is best with and IDE thing?
To be totally honest here, if I was making 140k us a year and remote working 10/hr a week... I'd be living in Colombia or another such place and not worrying about my skills. 60+% of my income would go in to investments. I'd continue to phone it in for the next ten years and then not a job after that. If you're really bored with all your free time you could continue pursuing a skills through open source projects and such things.
While I’m a huge fan of Andersons earlier work, The French Dispatch was just… too much Wes in one sitting. Like tomato soup with extra ketchup.

A mini-series sounds like grand idea.
Previous discussion: "Helix: a post-modern modal text editor"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27358479 (657 points | 1 year ago | 365 comments)
Building a data-driven hiring machine
If we still had a language as simple as Logo, but as powerful to express objects to a young mind, would be a beautiful thing.

We should strive for such simplicity.
That's why I think it will be good to have both options, people who prefer sites can use the site as is, if you prefer to download extensions and forget about sites then that option will also exist.
You mean that US has more inequality than EU because they spend more on defense?
Demystifying Software Architecture Patterns
But are templates guaranteed to compile without errors for any arguments that match the constraints? If not, then D is in the same situation as C++ with concepts: there is always the possibility of having to debug errors from the template implementation because the authors didn’t choose precise enough constraints. Rust, Go, Haskell, etc. do guarantee successful compilation, though at the cost of making their generics systems far less suitable for metaprogramming.
Isn't Amazon cheaper than your local electronics store? So therefore, won't big players be able to be cheaper than smaller ones? So then what is the logic behind stopping big investors? Also don't understand the thought process behind not having big government projects
What Product Is the Head of Engineering Responsible for Building?
Just bookmark it &/or in your favourites. There's also apps allow you to save it as a local electron app
I want a book, I can choose to buy from a local shop or Amazon or print on demand shop selling a pirated copy.

Those options are listed most expensive to cheapest.

But a portion of the the sale goes to that business, who in turn passes it on to various places.

The local bookshop uses the money to keep an asset in my local community and employs people in my local community. Amazon ships from a warehouse, and provides no local amenity. But they might employ someone locally. Maybe. The print on demand shop is giving me a counterfeit product, but it's the cheapest. It provides no local benefit.

So I'm not confusing book for bookstore. I'm specifically saying that the second order effects of seeking the cheapest copy of a book have implications beyond the sale of the book itself.
Client B’s write will only be successfully read from 1 of the nodes it wrote to, and read-repair only runs on QUORUM reads. So, no, it will not be possible to read value 2 for 5m - it will never be visible to operations at QUORUM.

This would have been a valid criticism of LWW (and there are other more contrived examples), but I think (or hope) this is an explicit trade off made by anyone using Cassandra in eventual consistency mode. There are strategies to prevent this being a problem for workloads where it matters, some discussed elsewhere in the thread.
I'm not a great fan of cloudflare - but they do some interesting work in bringing ipfs into the "normal" cloud-style static site/"pages"-hosting - either letting users expose cf pages via ipfs:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-on-ipfs/

Unfortunately, as far as I understand, they closed down the open ipfs gateway [b] [p] - it's now up to "users" to pay for bandwidth exposed via ipfs on the web:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ea-web3-gateways/

[b] https://blog.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/

[p] https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/
A lot of comments here focusing on whether this is a good thing or not, but I'm worried about a more fundamental issue: how is it supposed to happen in the first place?

As I understand it, the proposal is that every bit of software running on a device that is currently considered "firmware" ought to be in the OS instead. What does the story of how we get from here to there look like?

1. We convince manufacturers that it would be a great idea to release thorough documentation for all of their hardware products, and that way open source kernel developers can write their own firmware and merge it into open source kernels. Bryan gestures in this direction several times throughout the talk, claiming that this would be good for the hardware manufacturers because it would enable us to by more of their products. But ... no one's really convinced this is going to work, right? The hardware companies don't want to release documentation for the exact same reason they don't want to open source their hardware; it's a barrier (however small) against leaking trade secrets.

2. We focus our efforts on small companies like Oxide building integrated, top-to-bottom systems designed to run without firmware. This is great because it enables BIOS-less system design from the ground up and can be every bit as open source as we want it to be. But this means waiting and hoping that a tiny number of companies manage to reverse engineer the chips (like the AMD processors discussed in the presentation), which probably means running years behind and an extremely limited selection of hardware. This is not a solution that is going to deliver my next laptop, let alone my grandma's next laptop.

3. We convince manufacturers that EFI is a broken, sucky, insecure mess and include and let them help lead a process designed to replace it. This could maybe happen, we did get rid of BIOS (in favor of EFI) after all, but what is the end result likely to look like? It looks like binary blobs running unknown code necessarily tainting nearly every Linux system under the sun. And that's if they don't just decide to integrate with Microsoft and ignore Linux completely.

That's the thing about isolation. It has problems, as this talk discusses, but it also means that (putting aside a great number of bugs) an OS like Linux can exist without needing to reverse engineer firmware for the enormous amount of hardware it runs on. It's great to be able to run an OS with few-to-no blobs active, e.g. with open source Wi-Fi and graphics drivers. Closed firmware is in theory a security nightmare, but in practice it's not that often that anyone managed to exploit these vulnerabilities. Can you imagine having to run closed source Wi-Fi firmware in the Linux Ring 0?
This is a great question, I recently visited Australia where property prices are absolutely ridiculously inflated, they appear to be in a slight reversal currently; However, people are borrowing and paying millions (AUD) for shacks, just because they're near some water...yes the area is nice but these are old houses which are not really near public transport, good schools, hospitals or other amenities. Some of them I saw were built in a flood plane.

Why? What's driving this? Was it the historically low interest rates, which have now just rocketed in Australia back up to > 5% ?

Who will fuel the next property boom to pay for it? Feels almost like some apex has been reached and it's going down from here.

Especially as like others have said, it doesn't seem like the developed world is growing rapidly enough to sustain the demand. Immigration might help fuel more demand, but then pressure is taken away from real estate elsewhere, which would incentivize people to stay put, besides, it's not like immigrants often land in the developed world with 2 million dollars to spend on a shack in a remote location.

It's fascinating to say the least. Interesting times ahead for property speculators and I guess, everyone...
This is a surprisingly long conjecture about how tires are punctured by nails and yet it contains very little accurate information about tires and their construction (such as being lined with steel cables).
There is another area that computer scientists are not studying much and namely new architectures for computers. Is Von Neumann the best and only option? It seems so called computer scientists are not really studying computers at all, they are studying applications. The fundamental science of computers is the hardware architecture and the operating system, and computer science almost completely ignores fundamental basic research in both of them.

It is also a worry that the hidden code in the SoC's subsystems might be hidden for a reason, namely to give control of computers to someone other than the user and OS. That seems a perfect way to compromise all computers while giving an illusion of security. That's why the Intel Management System has been controversial (TPM's also), but in truth there are many processors on the SoC's that each have enormous security implications that the OS does not control. This has been an issue for decades. I remember people running code on the floppy drive MCU for Amiga's, so this has been known about for a long time. Cell phones are intentionally designed so the OS has no control over basic cellular radio functionality. There is a totally separate processor with its own non-public firmware controlling the radio. Whoever writes the code for these subsystems has enormous power with very little oversight.
It's not completely nonsense, but maybe it kind of dances around the point. 99% of the time people don't have any legal access whatsoever because it's much too costly. Practically, people only have legal protection in catastrophic scenarios, where they have no choice but to pay exorbitant fees. So good luck getting your property back in 9/10 cases.
what did you see?