skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Error establishing a database connection

Install WP-Super-Cache, or W3 total cache to statically cache your content to keep up with HN traffic :)
American TV and movies had so much better quality - not only in production, but also in writing, acting than local one. It was hard to watch 95% of local stuff, and the ones that were enjoyable were mostly enjoyable due to some kind of relatability. It was like that at least until Netflix started producing local content.
I’ll believe it when I see it in the UK
I think it was mentioned that one of the reasons was they tried to bailout voyager but voyager went under anyways. They extended a 500mio loan from alameda, which would explain a good chunk of it.

Also, having listened to the FTX podcast a few times just to get some idea of what their magic was, there was one episode where Caroline came on, and the gist of it seemed to be that the host Tristan and a lot of the heavy blockchain cool-aid drinkers managed to convince Caroline to toss out good old risk management principles and Yolo it on defi and nft projects. They referred it in Their podcast as "the summer of defi". I guess that might have been a reason as well
Because this is what FOMO looks like. Real FOMO. The kind where even people who are finance sharks end up looking at the wild hair and the unfiltered disrespect oozing out of bros like SBF, and figure there must be magic in those beans even if they don't quite get it and it doesn't quite add up. MAGIC. THE MOON. DIAMONDS. Can't fake those billions, or the blatant fuck-you signalling. Means the emperor is surely clothed. And a genius. The deep abasement and sloppy sucking sound coming from smart, distinguished people helps complete the picture.
It's actually not too bad even with SSH. I set up host aliases (https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/kinetic/en/man5/ssh_con...) that use different keys so I can just do "git clone work:realname/project" or "git clone personal:renata/sideproject".
Can also use zcompile to further improve loading speed (not sure if measureable, but I did it for the sake of it).
> Well, Japan hasn't seen population growth.

I don't know why this is everyone's immediate reaction. I'm saying housing is governed by supply and demand. If you want to drop prices you can either increase supply or decrease demand. They allowed supply to meet demand by increasing supply into flat... ish demand. ([edit] SF and Tokyo both grew ~10% from the mid 90s). So the system works :)

> I have a lot of sympathy for deregulation and think it should be the primary tool.

Great me too.

> ... though many cities also have a character and you can't replace every construction with a high rise building without destroying the city. Think of Paris or London.

Think of Hong Kong. A wonderful city. It's very different from the 50s when it was basically the same height as SF. I don't think anyone misses that. ([1] before, [2] after - I'd hardly call that ruined).

Yes, construction will change the character. But so what? Look at SOMA. Do you miss the old warehouses? I don't. And I certainly wouldn't miss the mishmash of almost identical 4 story buildings in the Sunset. They ain't no painted ladies is all I'm saying. Or much of the Mission. Honestly the entire SF affordability crisis would disappear if the Sunset was zoned 6 story instead of 4.

Embrace change!

[1] https://www.mardep.gov.hk/theme/port_hk/en/p1ch6_1.html#

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Peak#/media/File:Hong...
Glad I’m not the only one that finds Zsh slow to start
I don't know which discord the reply to me is supposed to be linking to but here it is in text form.

A true scandal is opening for the Biden administration. April 25, 2019: Biden announces his presidential campaign. 13 days later, Sam Bankman-Fried, son of Barbara Fried ( Stanford Professor and co-founder of political fundraising organization "Mind-the-Gap), launches #FTX crypto exchange. The exchange is magically an overnight success. SBF becomes biggest donor to Biden. Election day, FTX implodes completely. If you think this scandal is done, it goes even deeper. Gabe Bankman-Fried, brother to Sam (also a former Jane Street trader), is founder of "Guarding Against Pandemics" He was a Legislative Correspondent for the US House of Representatives and an advisor to large political donors in the Democrat party. The family Aunt Linda Fried is a WEF member on the Global Agenda Council on Aging.

The father, Joseph Bankman is a Stanford professor who has lobbied on behalf of Hedge Fund managers before Congress before (film records exist). FTX' Head of Ventures & Commercial at FTX Ventures Amy Wu, started with the Clinton Foundation years ago.

Nishad Singh FTX Director of Engineering has spent over 8 million for Dem candidates. And finally Obama's Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner, Mark Wetien was literally the head of FTX Policy & Regulation. Reports were the organization wanted to spend over a billion dollars on the Democratic party for 2024. A massive, massive money laundering operation has just been broken open.

The tone is a bit conspiratorial and had this been posted before the FTX collapse my eyes would have glazed over. I happen to think guarding against pandemics is a good thing. Financing none-profits with crypto scams and donating to politicians who subsequently are reluctant to regulate you, less so.

Regardless of who is in charge and their political affiliations, it simply should not work this way.
This "why don't you short it"-meme is stupid.

If the broker have the money you sold the loan for as collateral for the loan, in their controll, they will keep your money if they collapses or in general scam you. They probably did not even sell the cryptocoins in the first place and just makes up the balance you have.

Shorting is very risky even if you time it perfectly.

Where I live it is not even legal for me to do it.
Rubberhose cryptographically deniable transparent disk encryption system (2011)
what do you mean by ""Indian english" has taken on a life of its own"
> I don’t need a NAS with a powerful CPU

I have a home server with i3 8100 desktop, I wanget to get Intel Quicksync transcoding to work

The amount of trial and error that took - linux situation is trully dire
Yeah, I think we can criticize the stupid here without crossing that line.
But there is no such check here, is there? SIZE_MAX / SIZE_MAX is legally 1.
Wouldn’t clearing the memory upon free() be a more reliable way to deal with this, though?
AI that predicts how users respond to a feature before launching it
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Interesting. I assumed it was because it always pinged GitHub(?) for updates

But yeah, caching static source scripts should help
Spotify is just doing the age-old cycle of getting out-competed despite first mover advantage and then appealing to government authorities to try and stifle competition. When your only idea for innovation is trying to monopolize podcasts while your competitor is rolling out features like spatial audio (which is actually phenomenal) the writing is on the wall.
Yes but you can control this, turning it on and off as you like, and indeed market makers do this. It wouldn't explain a catastrophic loss though, it's more like a slow bleed that you balance against whatever income you're making.
No. (size_t)-1 and SIZE_MAX are identical, there is no difference in the two ways of writing that.

Furthermore, optimisation can't bite you if you test the values before you perform the potentially UB operation (and unsigned operations can never overflow anyway, they are always well-defined).
>NFTs were interesting in how they overvalued otherwise mediocre art

Thank god we caught that, as it never happens without NFTs.
Every comment I remember of him on HN threads were all hidden, downvoted and flagged. Now, to be perfectly clear, most of them were completely deranged and absolutely unrelated (usually a lot of stuff about god and bible etc etc) and he clearly was not sane of mind, but saying that he was treated "with respect and admiration" is a huge stretch.

People admired his work and acknowledged the existence of his project. People talked about it a lot and it was definitely interesting to see develop. However the person himself was definitely not welcome on HN (and I can't really fault that logic).
Blackout curtains are easily available in Denmark, and I have some, but I don't think that's common.
You could try having the OS guarantee zero initialized memory for all blocks that your program gets, but that's hard to enforce as a standard I imagine.
I've had some success with https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua

Luau may be an alternative as well, haven't tried it.

I love Lua, but at larger scales it's unmanageable.

Nim is used heavily in the gaming industry as a Lua replacement as well.
How and when did they manage to go around the 30% fee[1]?

[1] Not sure if "fee" is the correct term, but it's certainly not a tax, because those are issued by governmental organizations by definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax).
Ask HN: What are your clever keyboard automation entries?
I have AutoHotKey[1] for years but only recently started to make a real use of it. It is surprisingly powerful but of course does not work on its own - it needs actions to perform as a response to <something>.

I would be grateful for the interesting setups you may have (with AHK or anything else). A few of mine are below.

; I repurposed the numerical pad as a handy launcher, when it is in non-numerical mode. Keys have various actions assigned, more or less in a mnemotechnic way. I was wondering how to improve this (maybe some kind of 3D printed array with descriptions)

; numeric pad when not numeric
#HotIf !GetKeyState("NumLock", "T")
; super insecure way to provide a password for entries that are not managed by Bitwarden
NumpadMult:: Send("somepassword{Enter}")
; auto-complete login form from Bitwarden
NumpadAdd:: Send("{Ctrl Down}{Shift Down}l{Shift Up}{Ctrl Up}{Enter}")
; open Executor[2] to search for commands or macros
NumpadEnter:: Send("{Alt Down}{Space}l{Alt Up}")
; add a new tab to Chrome
NumpadSub:: Run "https://www.google.com"
#HotIf

; mute Zoom
Volume_Mute::
{
zoomWindowName := "Zoom Meeting"
if WinExist(zoomWindowName)
{
WinActivate(zoomWindowName)
WinWaitActive(zoomWindowName)
Send "!a"
} else
SoundSetMute +1
}

; better arrows - need to update that one to exclude vscode
::->::{U+2192}
::<-::{U+2190}
::<->::{U+21C6}

; replace the string mdcode with a Markdown ``` ... ``` entry, optionally with a language hint
:b0:mdcode::
{
;CaretGetPos(&CaretX, &CaretY)
Send "{bs 7}"
Sleep 100
Lang := InputBox(, "input MD code language")
Sleep 100
Send "{U+0060}{U+0060}{U+0060}" . Lang.Value . "`n`n{U+0060}{U+0060}{U+0060}{Up}"
}

I also added foreign languages combinations to get their diacritics instead of switching the keyboard.

[1] https://www.autohotkey.com/

[2] https://executor.dk/
How are you watching IPTV on Plex? I thought they only allowed that through an actual tuner (+ a Plex Pass)
The only cryptocurrency that does that is RAI in a sea of shit.
Thanks, I'll give it a listen.
Answer: Because it is sourcing the output of `kubectl completion zsh`, which takes 130ms to execute. (The article says something about zsh “caching” a static sourced file; does it actually do something like that? It still has to run the shell code, right?)

Question: How the hell do you take 130ms to print out the commands to set up shell completion? Is there something meaningful happening in that time, or is this simply the cost for the kernel to load a 43 MB do-everything kubectl binary? (43 MB is a lot, admittedly, but 130ms when most of that code stays untouched still sounds high to me.)
> From what I understand the savings rate has been dropping across the western world.

I’m not sure that’s the case. It may have just declined, but I think it was pretty high, during the COVID years.
yes, but the same we can tell about equity invention...

people were misusing it, does it mean that it is bad?

LLC are a main factorfor growth in last 100 years because of incentives aligment. same with crypto.

any tool can be exploited by bad actors

does it mean it should not exsist or be hated?
Sure it does, after 2008, my parents bought a house for $25k that would probably sell for $250k right now.
I wonder how much is compatible between these projects. I think the binaries from each should run on the other. Though some features probably required changes to the kernel.
Mesh Colours for Gradient Meshes (2021) [pdf]
Layoff spree in Silicon Valley spells end of an era for Big Tech
I find https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org to be great across Linux and macOS alike.
No, as not all memory is free()'d, think e.g. of crashes and buffer overflows.
TLDR: For-profit healthcare systems optimise for profit, not health.
> you can't replace every construction with a high rise building without destroying the city. Think of Paris or London.

There's a living example of that: Stockholm. They destroyed the center of the city in the 50s-60s and replaced it with high-rise buildings and a highway [1] [2]

They botched it so badly that you can't even properly see the city hall the way its architect intended.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/q8wxq3UWvSU5yDmD8

[2] https://goo.gl/maps/7uVYivYFQvmpWVGR6
What is the reason for this being flagged?
any progress requires mistakes, crypto over internet only speed ups this process

people wont fall twice into same scam

people can learn faster thanks to it

in other indystries there are also bad actors

only different, crypto is faster which is good thing in good use cases
I suppose the more lua-esque thing to do is to not use lua in isolation and not rely on lua rocks, but instead embed it in some host language, and then rely on the host language to do the heavylifting where libraries and ecosystem are concerned.

For example, if you're scripting and need to deal with yaml files, then instead of using a yaml parser from lua rocks, you might embed lua in python through lupa and then expose PyYAML through lupa to your lua code.

This sounds limiting, but it's actually liberating. Depending on what it is you're actually doing, you can just pick the host language and the libraries you want to use in a way that best integrates with the things you need to integrate with.
There isn't much there to liquidate that still has any worth. They didn't have significant holdings of any of the major assets. That's kind of the main reason they were insolvent.
His first account was https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos

His mental illness was not his fault. But it is also understandable that when someone uses the n-word, they will get downvoted and banned, even when it’s not their fault.
The site died from all the traffic, the wayback machine does not have a full copy :(

Anyway, since I am too from Poland I will just add that tinkering with hardware and electronics is still popular here. We have at least 2 paper magazines dedicated to electronics. One of them (https://elportal.pl/) tries really hard to make the hobby popular again. They provide a lot of free learning material and free access to some of the articles and DIY projects. It's a great resource for teenagers. Example project (schematics are international, so don't be bothered by Polish): https://ep.com.pl/projekty/miniprojekty/11310-nadajnik-am - an AM transmitter based on logic gates.

Now, more of a local curiosity is this YT channel (only in Polish unfortunately): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua8ZrITVucY One of the guys looks like he is drunk (maybe he really is). The guys speak about vacuum tube technology, make tube radios from scratch (make the tubes, resistors and capacitors themselves) and explain how old tech works.

From this channel I learned about https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidicon - which is a tube that was used in 50s to record video signal.

Interesting thing is that electronics generally is not learned at school, there is a subject called "technology" (or at least where when I was a pupil). Most of the people interested in it learned on their own...
This isn't Reddit. Please don't blather on about "downvotes"

If you would like to contribute constructively to the discussion you're welcome to cite comments that you feel HN have censored in some way

EDIT: Fixed a typo
Paying won't guarantee you the soft you pay for won't switch business model for subscription, or sell to a bigger company that will extinguish it.
Amazingly, streetview is available for Longyearbyen in Google Maps. You can see from the silhouette that it was done by a guy on a bicycle with some sort of backpack mounted camera -- the results look just as good as regular Google streetview. I assume it was some sort of volunteer effort rather than a Google employee or contractor.

EDIT: It looks like it's a German company that's doing it:
https://www.mapyourtown.com/
I hope the Earth's population does keep declining. Be good for the Earth to have fewer humans. But I also hope the total human population increases to hundreds of billions, trillions even.
Building a Resilient SRE Process
I think it's necessary to consider that we as programmers are paid mostly for what counts as 'commissions' or 'elevator music'. Building another REST endpoint or wiring together a CI/CD pipeline hardly counts as advancing the state of the art, but that's what mostly pays the bills.

And on the contrary, let's say you managed to push the state of the art, like you developed a more efficient fast fourier transform, now, how would you go about charging money for that?
Witchcraft and Magic [video]
Fix the terrible history page and I'll switch because it'll tell me that the dev team is prioritising the right things, existing, basic features over new, probably unwanted ones.

For a laugh, check out this bug[1] for the history page, extant since Firefox 11!, that means deletion is incredibly slow and tiresome. What makes me laugh even more is that history is stored in a SQLite database, meaning that deletion should be very easy and quick but they've decided to create some horrible extraction over the top that inevitably uses Javascript of some sort.

Just delete the stuff and refresh the page. Or don't, inform the user to close and reopen it themself, it would still be an improvement by a long way. Jesus wept, I know about Chesterton's Fence but how hard can this really be?

As this comment by a team committer shows, the direction of the product is wrongheaded and tells me all I need to know about why FF has fallen so far behind Chrome in market share:

> We understand this is still an issue, and we recognise that it is a pain point for people who do hit it. However, it likely involves a significant amount of non-trivial work to fix. At the moment our focus is on improving other areas of Firefox, and we don't have the time available to dedicate to this.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734643
Obvious question since corp debt uses the same financial black magic as housing loans, will corp debt crash the same way?

In the USA there was a law passed past 2008 to deal with CDOs, but banks have found a loop-hole to go around it.
The Casino and the Genie
I think the biggest downside to this approach is that people won’t ask very much of you as a junior.
Is SF obstinate or are the employers that insist on building their businesses there and attracting employees from other areas despite a lack of housing for them the obstinate ones?
> So the EU isn’t inept because they made a bad law. They are inept because they have no clue how to enforce it?

The law isn't bad. The EU knows how to enforce it.

> So the websites are asking the user - as the law dictates even if the buttons are the same size.

No.

1. The sites are willingly breaking the law in the absiolute vast majority of the cases

2. The sites don't even have to ask any of this if they simply stopped siphoning user data

> So you’re cheering the government making a law that made the user experience worse that the government couldn’t enforce?

It wasn't the law that made the experience worse. Does the law require the sites to siphon and sell your data to the highest bidder? No. The law says: if you do that, you have to tell the users about that, and obtain their consent before doing that. It's the industry of greedy leeches which made the experience worse. And you've bought into this industry's reasoning that it's the law that makes them do this.
This is extremely convenient and I'll be sure to add an SX-64 to my keychain.
> No retailer is going to let a company advertise how to buy products cheaper somewhere else.

That was an odd way to elide over the idea that a "retailer" can now stay in your pocket for 2-60 years and become a middleman to every financial transaction.
I can't find the article now but I remember reading someone arguing it's not like a war, but an actual war. The child is designed to take advantage of every last concession the body of the mother can provide, and the mother in turn has developed defense mechanisms such as the uterus, which is a very hostile place for a fetus but protects the maternal body from the worst of it.

Try to grow a fetus in any other body part and it will consume its host like the worst parasite. It's definitely an adversarial relationship.
If you look at Meta, even after these layoffs they've grown by 17% per year since 2019. It's bad for the people affected, but if you look at the big picture it's hard to call this a crash for now.
If it is like overflow, it should indeed be "aroundwrap".
Some interpretation isn't correct as well. [1] suggests that an account can be deleted, but none of the words in T&C or Privacy Policy says they can do so. For Wikipedia, there is a standard practice that an account cannot be deleted as it will violate the terms of the license that requires attribution of the individuals contributing. There has been a request at [2] to implement this feature, but it doesn't look like the team is giving priority.

[1] https://edit.tosdr.org/points/4936

[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T34815
Should this include when loading autocompletions in the title?

zsh loads in 105ms for me on a 7 year old workstation but I don't have that source command for Kubernetes' autocompletion in my zshrc. I'm only loading a few plugins such as fast-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions. It doesn't load slower than bash in a way that I can perceive.

Nice tip on using the profiler but how do you read the profile output compared to `time zsh -i -c exit`? The blog post you linked mentions running `time zsh -i -c exit` to get the true time which is where I saw the 105ms but none of the columns in the zsh profile table add up to 105ms. If the table reports in milliseconds, the summary table up top adds up to about 41ms for the first time column.