skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a good point. But let's not forget that the Nazi's and the Japanese used to do incredibly invasive medical tests on human beings in the name of "science". (Even the Americans have done political and medical experiments on their citizens, using the CIA, on African Americans and criminals). All these are condemned today by the scientific community because of it caused great harm (or even death) to the subjects who never gave their consent to such experiments. The psychological experiments conducted by FB on its users was equally bad because it looked to trigger emotions in the users (a useful feature for an advertising platform), some of which could cause users to go into depression. I don't know if the FB people conducting those experiments are aware that even mild depression causes great stress on an individual, and serious depression triggers suicidal impulses.

(This is not an attack on you or your otherwise valid point. Just a reminder that people should be mindful of their ethical obligations to get informed consent and not cause harm to others with their experiments).
I'm confused as well. I can't imagine a B-17 landing without flaps. I am a pilot, but never flown a B-17, so take it with a grain of salt...

You'd want both the gear and flaps down on landing, so both switches would be in the down position. If the switches weren't in sync, e.g. you need one switch up and the other down for landing, that would be a problem.
2023 Moon Phases – Northern Hemisphere [video]
This whole thing is such a mess. Binance's statement is quite scathing. It is a shame that crypto institutions continue to fold after mismanagement. The free money era will sure take a couple more entities with it.
I'd say Stripe but unlikely given their missed IPO window. Perhaps, Amazon, if they are feeling lucky?
Not necessarily. The space waste in "modern" distros is insane.

Not only Linux DEs are to blame here, Windows does it to (sometimes). Probably all stemming form the handicapped mobile interfaces.
Question for SWE working with data scientists
For you guys with a software development background, what are the things you complain the most about the coding practices of your data scientists colleagues?
I've done that a few times with my Strida (admittedly checked rather than overhead compartment). You'd probably get away with bringing a Brompton as hand luggage, although it's technically slightly over the limit.
> We're fighting chinese chipmakers

I totally agree, and this is very wrong because it means the government is trying to pick winners.

I like eink readers and phones from China, and I don't like it when daddy government tells me I can't plug a simcard in the device I purchased to use it on say AT&T network, while the device is compliant with international formats.

If the government was so concerned about malicious non-compliance, they could prepare a doomsday removal of all "bad" devices IF AND WHEN they start doing bad things, with the same IMEI blacklist approach, and NOT BEFORE which is only going to hurt customers.

Doing the IMEI blacklist before any device is caught doing bad things means it's just a commercial war.
This will become the new github.com code search. Last year, we launched a Technology Preview of our new code search as a standalone site: cs.github.com. Today, we're bringing that powerful code search, plus a redesigned code navigation UX, to github.com.
That's not really what this article is about though, it's about how PageRank doesn't work anymore because advertising is at odds with returning valuable results, which is complete nonsense for a gigantic subset of the value that Google offers.

Also it's written by a CEO of a competing search company. It's literally the very SEO he's railing against...
Why NASA is launching a new polar satellite
This is a joke, but it also misses the point: a volatile asset doesn’t have to crash to any particular baseline. It only has to crash below the stake price for its investors.
Storing wealth means that you can get your wealth out later. In this case, people are just giving it away.
No.

a) The mirror would need to be continuous. No gaps.

b) The mirror would have to be perfect. No dirt. No smudges.

Ref: https://www.quora.com/Will-a-laser-burn-through-a-mirror
If Kagi gets popular it would have the same problems as Google today has. They’re unavoidable.

You can mitigate it with curation, but then you’re bound to niches and bias, which is true with automation as well. No victory here.
Honestly, in retrospect he is saying something very similar to Keynes who says unemployment is caused by an interest rate (r) above the marginal productivity of capital (g).

The difference between Piketty and Keynes however is that Keynes has the concept of a liquidity premium which explains how it is even possible for r to exceed g assuming the central bank doesn't set interest rates.
Oh, but you CAN tell if they're sending those keypresses back to the mothership by monitoring the networking tab in your browser.
At the end of day, this entire fiasco really drives home the point if its not your keys its not your coins. Shady exchanges/banks can always collapse and take your entire portfolio with it, but if you have a securely backed up wallet, then your coins will be untouchable no matter what kind of shady shenanigans goes down in the wider cryptocurrency landscape.
it amuses me greatly that 30 years in to the great commercialized internet experiment, we still don't have durable mechanisms for publishing, spam filtering, identification, reputation, moderation and discovery.
> To me, just returning land and prisoners then saying sorry isn't enough.

One of the lessons of WWI was heavy-handed reparations create more even larger problems. It took WWII to clean it up the mess, and while the de facto military dictatorship that emerged under the Kaiser was was bad, the Nazi replacement was far, far, far worse.

What is important is that whatever end this comes to puts an end to wars of territorial conquest like this. They make little sense in the modern world, and are an absurd waste of life and wealth. After the war, Ukraine will become a NATO country, and the west will invest heavily in rebuilding and GDP will grow. So long as the people of Russia tolerate totalitarian rule, they will live with stagnant growth and dim future. If the people of Russia can once again open up, maybe that future will be different.
'show me what you have and how much you owe'
'it's $10B and $16B'
'no thanks'
For me, almost everything that's not coding related, and that's after all the SO clones etc have been removed from the results, is SEO "optimized" at best and SEO spam at worst. Most websites that show up on Google follow the same recipe of headlines, quotes, stock images and repetitive content and annoying introduction paragraphs that place them at the top of the list.
> Though I don't use the recording tool at all this article focuses on I rather write the tests manually

That's because automatic code generators rarely work (anything more dynamically generated and it's a no-go).
reminds me of LTCM...they were making bank until the Asian bank crisis and Russia defaulting on their debt

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x225si7
I might not have gotten it had I not seen it happen with (construction) contractors.

A sub-contractor did terrible work, and took out a mechanic's lien on our house nearly immediately after completion. One of their workers then assaulted my wife when she yelled at his mother (his mother apparently handled the finances and was trying to pressure my wife into signing something she didn't agree with about the quality of work).

On the other hand, mechanic's liens exist specifically for the case where the general contractor is not being timely with payment to subs; it's basically the only lever they have. In this case the lien was improper, and the AG told us we should sue if we didn't have evidence of it being lifted by EOD. I do wonder how many people just capitulate and pay for shoddy work just to make them go away.
But then, you can't really search youtube as efficiently as you can texts. That's the only downside for me, sieving through tens of videos just to find something that might be in the middle that's releavant to what i'm searching.
I define civilized as not resorting to rude assertions such as:

> they want to squeeze every story into a large conversation so they can take the moral high ground against straw man arguments

> Here's a policy recommendation: don't run your mouth on topics you don't know much about

I am not insane in thinking this is an abrasive way of presenting one's arguments.
Am I the only one to admit thinking "Odd, It makes no sense returning to hybrid disk + ssd drives(1)".

Anyway. Way more cool.

(1) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_Drive
Why do you think a single thing they told the public was ever truthful?

It seems naive to me.
"Fundamentals remain solid."

Can you imagine how many times that exact phrase was thrown at new investors to FTX or any other such crypto?
Wouldn't the cleanup work be lost in the squash?
Olympiad winning programming skills are not that useful in shops building software as they lack any kind of context. Programming is usually the easy part - the tough bits of the job come from either experience or (rarely) good judgement.
Docker Desktop for Mac released an experimental file sharing implementation back in March[0].
It made working with Docker bearable.

Does anyone know how well Podman performs on Mac? Especially file sharing.

Edit: A quick Google led me back to this HackerNews comment[1]. Looks like Docker for Mac is faster.

[0] https://www.docker.com/blog/speed-boost-achievement-unlocked...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32307595
"Because if your computer costs $35" - those days have long gone when you could buy a pi for that kind of money.
> we further suggested that there was probably work we had not discovered. Finally, *we made our primary recommendation*, which was to slip the project 12 months to cover the newly-discovered work, and provide margin for any additional remaining work.

note the usage of the word primary there.

stupid messengers.
I suppose Docker Compose won‘t work with those alternatives?
> If you have 5+ years of cushion you can take a lot of risk.

In my own experience I think this is a dangerous attitude: anny other HNers out there that thought this and failed, maybe add a comment about your own experience?

I thought I had cushion. However that attitude led to me reseting my equity to zero when I was about 30, and it took more than a decade of my life before I felt like I was starting to recover.

Perhaps sometimes we had some luck, so we get some savings, and we then think “that was easy, I could do that again” and try something risky. But the environment or our circumstances have changed, and we can’t always replicate our past.

The other aspect is that I think we underestimate risk: for example when I was younger I would think creating a business worth a million dollars would be unbelievably great. Now I see that opportunity costs of a $X00,000 loss of income require a 10x return ($X million) to break even (to only just cover your risks). Also you need wayyyy more return than 10x to cover the fact that your time investment is not diversified: a 10x return on a game you can only play a few times is a massive gamble that you end up with nothing. You don’t want to end up with nothing after say 40, because the world starts to randomly switch into extremely-hard-mode sometime after ~40 (and everybody is unaware they were playing on easy-mode until after the switch changes).
The Nigerian or Indian scammer will usually get 40-50 cents on the dollar in their local currency or crypto from a Chinese "gift card trader" who then sells it on Paxful or in Wechat/Whatsapp groups for 10-20% more than that. The groups doing it on a large scale have "shoppers" who spend all day buying electronics with the cards for a % of the amount.
Dark theme is the default theme now for modern web. I found it a good thing.
https://holoplot.com/ give a two dimensional array. The hangs of speakers that you see at most concerts are a line array, and within each of them will be an array of transducers that control the pattern of the individual cabinet (eg cardioid subs. You'll also quite see digitally steered columns in a lot of spaces these days too. None of these remove the reverb, but they do provide control over where energy is directed to minimise it occurring in the first place.
When you sell stock A and buy stock B, if you had capital gains on stock A, it is a taxable event.

Crypto is the same.

Why do you think converting from BTC to USDT is not a taxable event?
Thank you for sharing that! TIL.
Binance walks away from acquiring rival FTX
You just repeated the same things. That's does not make Israel a terrorist state. It's horrible, yes. But the US has done some pretty horrible things too. That doesn't make it a terrorist state either. Words matter.

Now Hamas is a literal terrorist state. Curious you don't mention that. It might have something to do with your preconceived notions.
Purely anecdotal, but as a matter of fact yesterday I spent 15 minutes searching for a web site on google (I couldn't remember the domain name), threw up my hands, went to duckduckgo, and nailed it on the first try.
> History is more on the side of it happening than not.

Is this true? Of all the years that various countries have used traditional fiat currency, has debasement happened more years than it hasn't? I don't think so but I'm not certain.

Obviously, nobody can predict the future here, and history tells us that all empires come to an end at some point. But we're watching crypto speed-run through all of the issues that the American banking system had in the Free Banking era leading up to the creation of the Fed. Operating in this trustless crypto system still makes it possible for people in control to do stupid things which threaten the viability of the entire system.

Personally, I think cases like this prove that wealth concentration in the hands of the few leads to these situations. It's a not a government problem, it's a concentration of wealth and power problem. Individuals shouldn't have this much money or power to act so recklessly, but we accept the outcome as a consequence of our winner-take-all culture.
The number of households artificially increased as a result of student loan payment deferments and the general COVID free money bonanza. More households = more rental demand = higher rent.

Expect that to revert to the mean (people move back in with their parents, get roommates) if this is a long, deep recession. Less demand = lower prices.
I didn't mean to contradict you, just elaborating on it a little more and taking it in a slightly different direction. I think even with your caveat, there's still an implicit belief that there's still a relationship, however distorted, between what the user pays and what the seller does with your data, and my point is that the incentives just don't seem to work that way.
PageRank was all Larry Page. The cited article was about the search engine.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6285999B1/en
Sorry the word is "prism", not spectrum.
We've been here a long time ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com
> One would think that there would be diminishing returns to more infrastructure in London, that some investment in the Power House North would do wonders.

Why would one think that? Everything we see suggests returns are compounding rather than diminishing.
What If Humanity Is Among the First Spacefaring Civilizations?
Think about it: if the HN crowd has never used any dapp, what does that say about the rest of the world? I mean, this is the place where people think rsync should replace Dropbox.
It must be a game changer as Selenium is mentioned, but never linked in the article.
The article suggests that search engines will become a personal choice. I rather think that good search engines will become such a competitive advantage that companies will buy search engine access for their employees.
100% =)
Is this a clone of bearblog (is bearblog a clone of this) or do they share an open source?

EDIT: I'm dumb. Please do not reply or I will Sylvia Plath myself.
I think it's the same phenomenon that causes road rage. Collective pseudo-anonymity (and on the internet, literally pseudonymity) causes people to act in bizarre ways. The other people who are interacting with them via that mediated interface (internet, cars on road, phone, etc.) are at some level dehumanized.

Very few people would do the kinds of things they do behind the screen or wheel of a car when sitting face to face with someone IRL.
I don’t think you understand what group I’m referring to. I’m referring to people not in tech.
Binance backs out of deal to buy FTX
I'm not a lawyer so I'm not going to express the same perfect self-confidence that you appear to have, but article 7 only applies if your use of the data is based on consent in the first place - which is only one of the options for legal justification of processing under article 6.

Of course, each member state is free to create exceptions to all of those articles for anything they consider journalism, which makes it even harder to make absolutely certain pronouncements on the legality of of any specific work which might fall under that category, but let's not get too complicated. Suffice to say that I think a court case on the question would be longer and less straightforward than you appear to think.
>The silly thing is that FTX was a money printing machine. There was no reason to start gambling with user funds, aside from greed, hubris, and stupidity.

Where were their profits derived? Was it from taking their slice of every transaction? Or selling their freshly minted coins? If it was the latter, that only works for so long, just ask the Fed.
Ask HN: Is electric toothbrush worth it?
It's in beta. Will this service have a free version for individuals and organizations?
Also, just on the face of the claims it doesn't make any sense with the rest of the thesis.

By design, wealthy people do not pay meaningfully more into the social security program. So the idea that eliminating it is part of some pro-millionaire agenda seems a bit weird.
> trust in it is enforced by the US army

That's not exactly "absolutely nothing", to use the parent's phrase.
There's maybe a good argument there for blackbox (non-interpretable) ranking algos.
I'm not so sure of that.

I ordered several products before the platform was inundated with Chinese junk and I later found out all the stuff I bought was counterfeit. I think that there was a lot of Chinese sellers using drop shippers to avoid showing their products were coming from China.

One was a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard new in the box with the mouse. I liked it so much a few months later, I couldn't find the original seller, so I bought one off of Microsoft's site - as soon I got it, I could tell the one I got on Amazon was a counterfeit.

Same thing with some Lucky jeans. I got a pair off of Amazon and then went to the Lucky store they had in a local mall. As soon as I picked them up, I knew the pair I had were fake. The cotton wasn't the same (the real one's are super soft denim) and when I went to look closer at the tags on mine, the tags were off in several areas.

I had two more things I bought there which turned out to be fake and that it was for me, I won't ever buy anything other than books from them now. I know its gotten much worse since I stopped buying stuff on the site.
When the US needs to build infrastructure, they can build it incredibly fast. The replacement I-35 bridge [34] and the fix to the Oroville Dam Spillway [6] are examples.

Usually it gets tied up in years or decades of various fights like the St Croix Crossing which required federal action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Croix_Crossing

[34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Saint_Anthony_Falls_Brid...

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekUROM87vTA
Without exchanges like FTX or Coinbase, how should general public acquire crypto?
Honestly, I'm more bullish about this industry than before. So much of this awfulness unfolding right now is from centralized, opaque entities - precisely what this industry was meant to destroy.

The trouble is that these centralized entities came about when the tech itself was too nascent and there were no decentralized alternatives. So they had too much power and money. And now that they're crashing and burning, the decentralized alternatives can have their moment in the sun.

For instance, there's a dApp for leverage trading called GMX.io. Since it's decentralized, all of its assets and liabilities and treasury balances can be transparently seen by anyone. It offers most things that any large brokerage would offer, and has been functioning without a hiccup throughout the entire clownshow.

When I started out in November 2020, the decentralized economy was tiny and there were few dApps. Since then, there's been an explosion in the number of dApps powering everything from payments to digital asset market places to in-game asset trading. Paying for a digital subscription with a web3 wallet is a better experience than anything in traditional finance.

Of course there's a lot of fluff - that was inevitable given the wild excesses we saw in 2021 - but the pieces are in place to form the foundation of the entire digital economy.

I will be very, very surprised if you're still using your credit card to pay for things online in 2027.
In each of the instances I'd listed above, a reason emerged. Sometimes it was pull, but quite often (Usenet -> Web forums, Digg -> Reddit, MySpace -> Facebook), push played a major component: the extant option was increasingly less appealing to users (or providers, see my "Why Usenet Died" analysis for my take on some of the factors: <https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c3xyu/why_use...>).

The compelling reasons presently are being provided by Twitter and its present owner, Elon Musk. Nothing's changed in Mastodon's offerings over the past several weeks, but much has changed regarding its attractiveness. Social networks are notoriously tippy, and what matters far more than specific featuresets of either the origin or destination systems. If major users transition, many others will follow. If and when that does occur, this can happen with stunning swiftness.

UI/UX are not at present a blocking feature, though as we've both noted, opportunities for improvement exist.

I've seen instances with > 3x increase in traffic as noted in this thread:

<https://freeradical.zone/@tek/109309036456312761>

That's based on available evidence, not hypothetical arguments.
there better not be any government bailouts...people/companies need to accept the risks/rewards for using DeFi
glib low effort put down to a glib low effort statistic.

When there are an estimated 7 to 9 million excess deaths recorded for the duration of the USSR, there's certainly going to be some survivorship bias with any polling.

The fall of the soviet system to capitalism was a mess, but it doesn't actually tell us anything about how people felt about communism vs capitalism. The statistic presented was in defense of socialism/communism. But, the transition from the soviet union to capitalist Russia was messy in its own right. Russia was looted by oligarchs taking advantage of the disarray.

All that being said, it looks like the poster was referencing this article, which is based on a survey conducted in 2009, long after the collapse of the soviet union...but one year into a worldwide recession. So I'm still not sure what conclusions one can really draw from that survey.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2009/1223/Why-nearly-...
i miss the cypress test runner
Back in the early 2000s there was an occasional service (Anglia Crosslink) that ran that way. Ipswich to Basingstoke was the longest route.