skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so wild & weird how the official language keeps providing so little, but there's more and more expectations & standard library that's expected. The extreme divergence is pretty incredible.

I think of, for example, "promise cancellation", which was a long long long running saga of topics discussed in the old es-discuss mailing list. Today there is AbortSignal and AbortController, but these are actually specs from the DOM, even though they don't really depend on any other DOM technology & even though they are widely used as "the" way to do promise cancellation. Trying to evolve the language was just too hard. Also a lot of those ideas from back then were kind of not as good- we learned a lot & AbortController kind of works decently, with what we've got (that said, AbortSignal is core proof that promises being async only was kind of bone headed- we immediately had to go invent an async+sync alternative, someplace a couple miles away, to make promise cancellation something doable in a reasonable fashion! (yet that "Signal" sync+async tech remains a single-use one-off!! eek!!)).

So we have a wider distributed set of folks doing "standards" in different places. Almost nothing gets folded back in to the langauge. Instead of having processes & eventual growth of the language, taking the things that have in fact won & bringing them in, there's a very rag-tag acceptance. Governance is split up across a couple major entities. Changes percolate at varying rates to downstream specifications. WinterCG is interesting as like, the first people to get together to say, here's what things from the sea-of-standards we should agree on. It's the first union. Which has power to embrace, but still, has little power right now to shape & influence the upstream standards, from a wide body of places, that it is consuming/blessing. Wild stuff.
Is it bad that one email provider has lots of the market? It doesn't mean there's still not a long tail of alternatives for anyone to use if they feel like it. We haven't "standardized" on Gmail until no one else is using anything else, and we're a hell of a long way from that. Gmail has 30% of the market.
Still, “k” is infinitely better than a thumbs up.
true! in part the expectation for what was a quality webpage was lower. remember how crude the yahoo home page was!
This looks really cool - I love these sorts of challenges.

Reminds me of Zachtronics games: https://www.zachtronics.com/
This will never happen, but I wish we could go the other direction and write Polish and Czech/Slovak in Cyrillic. They would be so much easier to read!
SZCZ is only one letter!
Actually this is convenient for me. I have PayPal account and can't close it, because there is like 1 EUR or something like that. But I am also refusing to connect my banking account to withdraw the money. So here I am playing waiting game with PayPal.
This point is pointless. The question is whether federation works, or whether it instead degrades into a short list of large providers.

It's amusing that the first response to that point being made is to miss it, and to somehow paint the isolation of smaller servers as a strength of federation (because it gives users control over what they see.) Then the next one is literally an argument that decentralization will inevitably centralize, because that centralization will satisfy the communities expectations 98% of the time.

The last paragraph wanders very close to claiming that it is childish and entitled to expect your decentralization not to be centralized. Doesn't that just enthusiastically reinforce idlewords's claim?
I'd be grateful if someone would explain what this really means to us Roman alphabet users.

An npm trove on Github isn't ringing any bells. A sad Google translate doesn't work either.

Please explain.
Adding up the premiums plus the out-or-pocket max for the plan options that had my providers on my exchange, the low premium option was the least expensive, despite its higher deductable.

The low premium option is the least cost option if you don't use much healthcare, or if you use a lot; but there's a range somewhere in there where the higher premium plan may lower your total costs. Of course, if you're getting a premium subsidy, the calculation changes.

But yeah, Obama promised access to healthcare and delivered access to healthcare insurance. It's not unuseful, but it's not really enough.

If it were up to me, I'd lower the medicare eligibility age every year, and gradually grow the system, a couple decades later we'd have Medicare for All (ish, not all seniors are eligible).
The guy have massive "I wrote shit that happened to be popular so I must be good" issue..

I still remember having to run his malady of a web server when we still had big Ruby team. I guess it might've been "good" compared to other things Ruby...

and the clown car mentality like

> had this stupid setup where the people deploying Rails didn’t have root access. I told Kevin that this was stupid and apparently it was Kevin’s idea because he told me “fuck you”.

Like, holy shit, even at dark times of cgi-bin we didn't had much of this idiocy and he's taking issue with people not wanting to deploy stuff as root...
Сhecking for leaked data without storing any
I’m deep into crypto and nobody I know has ever heard of it, and nobody I follow has ever mentioned it.
I understand why this is being done. I selfishly hope it doesn’t take off; I find Cyrillic much easier to read than any Latin transliterations, likely simply due to my brain expending extra resources to recall the Slavic languages’ much more consistent phonetic pronunciation rules instead of the various English alternative pronunciations for said string of Latin characters.
I dunno. Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. don't actually provide what the web used to provide, so they certainly didn't improve anything from the early web. It's apples-and-oranges, but the apples mostly don't exist anymore. It happened as part of the shift the web made from being people-driven to being commerce-driven.
This is the best I can find: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/head...
My dad the data processor told a story decades ago about how when they swapped out the mini computers at work for new machines, they started getting condensation in the server rooms because the AC tonnage so outclassed the BTUs of the servers that the temperature would drop like a rock when the units cycled on.

"Reduce energy consumption by 75%" sounds like exactly that sort of, "Remind the customer to call their other vendors to schedule an appointment" situation.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore is slow, but like the rest of the Singaporean government, it does not fuck around.
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This seems like a way to almost force user retention, or increase profits. I'm guessing they must not be doing as well financially anymore
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It's hard making a moderate-income 3+ chidren family the role model. It's obvious how you would like to exploit their fertility but they still have to foot the financial, logistic and labor costs of raising a lot of children.

Especially hard if you expect mother to not have her life while having all these kids, who are then going to depart their home and make her life even more eventless.
Kinda shitty of the boss to be dunking on the employees to begin with.
You can get a lot of impressions for 160K. You buy them in batches of 1000 using a term called CPM, which is cost per thousand [1]. CPM can be around 10 dollars for a really good segment. I'm sure there there are some adops folks that have a better knowledge than me. So, if CPM is $10, then that gives you around 1.6 million impressions.

[1] That's right M is for a thousand, because M is a thousand using Roman Numerals. You thought you would never have to remember that.
I'm not suggesting to make poor quality roads. I am suggesting to not put up a 25mph sign on a road wide and straight enough to feel safe going 50mph. A main road near me is such a 2 lane road, 4 lanes widths wide, and is completely straight, but marked 25mph. It's no wonder most people go at least 10-15mph over. I do so unconsciously if I don't pay attention to the speedometer.
I've bought the art of electronics and I'm not sure why it's referenced so often. It certainly is not for beginners. I graduated in Electrical Engineering but still didn't find it useful yet.
Seems like it got the hug of death from many users - few interesting quirks I saw while it was still running:

* You need to actually capture the king to win. Check/Checkmate does not apply here

* You can't move the same piece twice in a row (I think)

* You can actually skip a turn - This is somehow more strategic than it sounds, but I'm not sure how to use it - maybe just wait with your "venus flytrap" and then capture the pieces?
All depends, on speaking about short term perspective or long term.

But German economy is so much tied to export, and their politics so much depend on public opinion, so any step leading to short term weaken of current tops, considered as hostile.
Outside the US. I always find job searches a grind. No one hands you a job, but if you work it hard you can get multiple offers. I never worked for a company who "got a new round of funding though" - so that might be a tell. Try adding boring companies (bootstrapped, profitable, serve a customer segment that isn't tech) and government into the mix.
This is a converter from Ukraine's cyrillic alphabet to a latinized spellings. It would only really be useful for translating proper names I think.
they were also not meant to scale. if something happens to the Ringmaster, that was it. I remember a couple rings falling apart years ago because of that.
The Human Race at 8 Billion
Having a specilized hosting company means that self-hosting Mastodon is challenging! So, it's MastoDon't, basically!
This is a person that clearly doesn’t expect a sentencing judge to be eventually reviewing their contemporaneous public statements.
Can't try it because it is being hn-hugged to death.

So, I will just comment that I've really enjoyed chess.com's fog of war variation. Basically, you can only see the squares where you are legally allowed to move, adding a whole different level of strategy to the game.

I wish lichess could add it!
I found "The Book of Shaders" to be an absolutely amazing resource for learning about what shaders do from a very basic level. Bonus: it's completely interactive and free online: https://thebookofshaders.com/

Unfortunately, they never finished it.
Eric has also acknowledged it.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15922870378054410...
> Great textbook, I learned all the topology I know from it.

The kind of topology this book focuses on is what I learned as "point-set topology". I guess the parent considers topology to not contain algebraic topology, since they go on to say they know more than this book contains.

You could turn this statement around - what if you learned all of the category theory you knew out of this book? Maybe someone can comment.

The start of the book and their take on point-set topology seems reasonable. I saw all of the familiar theorems without any eye-popping machinery being used. I was very happy to see some technically important items in the book (the compact-open topology, and the corresponding topology on Hom).

I would be very interested in a semi-experienced reader's take on Chapter 5. [1]
If you don't already know category theory, is this a reasonable introduction? (Is the on ramp ever smooth?)

I can't vouch for what kind of intro to (point-set) topology the book gives, but I can certainly say that I would prefer this book over MacLane's "Categories for the Working Mathematician" as an introduction to category theory, for what it's worth.

[1] https://assets.pubpub.org/6d1dqgg9/51597355090422.pdf
Why have ads at all on a small website? Running one costs very little.
This issue was non existent before Feb 24 but now becomes really relevant. The Cyrillic script has weird origins (the first known chronicler in it was some Novgorod priest Upir Оfeigr; his first name sounds like "vampire"). The official story about Cyril and Methodius is an example of empire propaganda. Their Glagolitic alphabet has no relation to Cyrillic. So, no real value to keep the Cyrillic script other than imperialist sphere of influence considerations. Even the Serbs switched.

I think that a Latin variant of Ukrainian language must avoid diacritics. They are completely foreign and will annoy people which hurdles future wide adoption. I like a variant called Farbetka [1]. It is close to something I would like to see being widely used.

[1] facebook.com/notes/farbetka/фарбетка-позиційна-українська-латиниця-без-діакритики/534910516989409/
FTX actually had a TRUMPLOSE item on its balance sheet. From today's Matt Levine's Money Stuff today...

>In all, the spreadsheet says FTX Trading’s assets were $900mn of “liquid” assets, $5.5bn of “less liquid” assets consisting of crypto tokens, and $3.2bn of illiquid private equity investments. There is also an obscure $7mn holding called “TRUMPLOSE”. There are no bitcoin assets listed, despite bitcoin liabilities of $1.4bn.
Hygienic Macro
> and just push a few buttons.

There are just so many buttons to push, it's not only about lights. Remember, they have 'routines' that can easily equate to dozens of button pushes. Even without routines, I can tell it to set all lights in a room at some percentage. And no, I can't just wire a dimmer, because they are spread across light fixtures. Sometimes your hands are busy and it's good to be able to control stuff.

If anything, they should make it easier to add commands (I want to be able to change 3D printer settings without have to fiddle with the interface – it's connected to Homeassistant so it has access to controls).

It's not just for that either. Alarms, timers, unit conversions, translations, calls from echo to echo in different rooms, weather at some location, purchases (and asking where are they)... you can even ask if some food can be given to your dog.

I will agree that it's infuriating when they don't work. And it doesn't seem to difficult to fix. There are commands I use frequently, chances are I am using them again. Asking to turn of the lights and having it play some random song is ridiculous.
A clever way to escape checkmate is to move your king towards or away from the piece that placed the king in check (as long as your new square doesn't also place you in check by a different piece you should be able to avoid the initial capture and still be safe since they won't be able to move this same piece right away).
Bench Grinder Safety Guide
And a bunch more free advice on machine tool use:

https://www.fastenal.com/fast/services-and-solutions/metalwo...
Oh hi. Unrelated to this tool but I use fnm every day and it's fantastic.

First time I used it it ran so quickly I thought it wasn't working properly.

Thanks for your hard work.
>I am not sure there is a clear distinction between the two for fractional reserve banking ?

If your assets are real and not shitcoins, there is a difference. If I have $200 in my bank, the bank takes $100 from me and buys AAPL stock (and adds their own cash); and then I go to withdraw my $200 on Saturday:

1. The bank is illiquid. I want $200 cash, but the bank only has $100 and 1 AAPL stock.

2. The bank is (likely) solvent. Unless AAPL crashes below $100 on Monday morning they are likely good for the money (AAPL, a blue chip stock, is unlikely to crash below $100) on monday morning. In this case a lender of last resort will step in (like the Fed) and bank may pay some premium for an emergency loan.
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Hi! I wrote the post. Yes, this was a weekly meeting at a community center where language learners speak, or nearly fluent people. Ideally a mix, and people can make corrections.
It definitely happens in the UK, I've done this and also made the same mistake. I don't think it's illegal, because they give you the terms clearly: pay it off within x months and it's zero interest. It's not like Klarna where they say you agree to make a 1/x payment every month. It's also not (as far as I know) a direct debit agreement. Virtually every credit card company also does this; you have to request to pay the full balance every month if you want to avoid interest. The only exception I can think of is the Amex cash cards where you have to pay off in full mothly.
What would you know? I've known addicts, and I've known addicts that got clean.
Yammer was pretty nice for what it did. It felt more structured and formal than Slack, but wasn't as painful to edit as wikis tend to be.
There's something seedy about the term webring I just can't identify.
I love the question! I would tend toward a classic, non-digital gift.

Some ideas:

An Aerobie (like a Frisbee but goes farther and requires more skill)

A compass.

A Fisher Space pen.

An hourglass.

A chess set.

A nice shade hat for hiking.

A headlight/taillight set for a bicycle.

Balls for juggling.

A slide rule (if he's into math).

Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts (my dad read it as a boy, then I read it, then my son read it)

A harmonica.

A backgammon set.

A video drone (if you have a lot of money to spend -- I would have loved one of those as a kid)
I run latest Android version on my 6 years old Pixel 1.
The only reason it isn't provided by Google is that Google doesn't want to.
You haven’t really substantiated anything you said with sources, I’d be interested in reading some if you have them.
> No cache gets you 10x

I've done much better. Think sticking a a cache in front of a database with seriously complex queries. Yes you need to be be aware of staleness, no it's not a magic wand, but it delivered massive improvements.

> When the cache was put in place it accounted for 40% of run time

If looking shit up in a hash table, at a few hundred or thousand cpu ticks, cost 40% of your runtime then I smell PEBKAC[1], not cache problems.

[1] Not you personally but someone
This writeup has a lot of good starting points: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/android-tips/
> The point of mastodon is not that big companies will join small volunteer-run instances.

But does this really address that issue? I see this as an attack vector really. Let's say Elon isn't happy with the competition. He can join a small server and force them to either increase hosting fees or to shut down. That's really the point of the author's comment and the relationship to scaling.
jfc the idiot turned off core services for the system and now people can't log in
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/15922599381095219...

how much does it cost to run some microservices, what a tool
I found HN front-page to still be less than about 1 user action per second. Ie. Pageload.

That means if your site loads fast, you typically won't ever be serving more than a single user at once, so unless you're serving it on a burstable CPU and you run out of burst capacity, you should be fine.
I have an inkling that Netflix wasted a lot of their potential with all this microservices mess. They had to hire very experienced engineers and pay them more than anyone else because that is the only way all those microservices could be maintained.
My first impulse was to disagree with you, but I realised I gave the exact same advice as a consultant to a group managing one of the bigger government websites that had some performance issues.

They wanted to paper over the issues by slapping a CDN in front of the site. Their users are all local, so the global aspect of the CDN wasn't the point, the benefit was that it would cache the content and provide a performance boost.

I told them that, yes, a CDN might help, but they should optimise their site first, and only then add a CDN on top if they really need to. Otherwise they'll just mask their issues. It's too easy to end up with queries that take 1 minute but are cached for, say, 1000 separate users. Most people most of the time will have a good experience, but you'll end up with a hideous 99th percentile that will be really hard to detect and fix.
Hi! I wrote the post. I stayed about 10 days in each big city because seeing them was my goal in doing the ride. I was probably pedaling only half the days. And yes, some of the kilometers were tough! Climbing, wind, weather, or gravel.
FedEx's freight unit to furlough workers
Sorry for my ignorance, but take, for example, Qualcomm chipsets, which are used in millions and millions of devices. There are 5 main series (2,4,6,7,8), a maximum of 9 generations for a total of 33 variations. I understand that 33 variations are a lot, but don't they share a lot of code? Apple Silicon has, at the moment, 5 variations in 2 generations (M1, M1Pro, M1Max, M1 Ultra and M2), and this number is going to grow quickly.
Then we also have MESA drivers, which support, for example on NVIDIA, dozens of GPUs on a variety of architectures.
I am getting this totally wrong? Is the effort that much greater than, for example, those projects? Is a Snapdragon 429 that much different from a 630, 665, a 750g or a 845? Apologies for so much text and thanks a lot for your answers!
While I agree PayPal sucks, it may be beyond PayPal's control. It seems that some countries (in general) want you to convert any foreign remittance into local currency, seemingly to allow better tax compliance for their anti-laundering requirements. It's crazy, but I'll put the blame on governments on this one.
The problem is that I see microservices adopted for two very different reasons:

1) We need to split this thing out because we need to isolate it

Problematic. Generally the issue is political--not technical. The service is necessary but not getting enough support--isolate it to force fixes. Some service not being responsive enough to internal customers--isolate so tickets now can be assigned and blamed on them. etc.

2) We need to split this thing out because it's a perfromance bottleneck and we need to scale it

A reasonable choice. The people scaling something need to be able to bound and limit the scope or they'll never make any progress.

The issue is that #2 is VASTLY rarer than #1.
Is the cost of housing the people who can no longer afford rent or houses because of AirBnB factored into the cost of AirBnB? No. Therefore, externality.
The assumption that this isn't accounted for in basic analysis is pretty far-fetched.
World’s first CO2 battery for long-duration energy storage is headed to the US
How else can browsers check the hash of a file downloaded over HTTPS?
> Email is the example I give people of how federation could work.

Why does this example keep coming up? Email is highly centralized these days. It is an example of how decentralized systems BECOME centralized. Not an example of how decentralized systems work. The centralization process here made email far easier to use and was critical to its mass adoption.

(centralization/decentralization is a spectrum obviously and not a binary option)
Was Moneyball Jonah Hills first big role? Now he will take a star turn as Michael Lewis’s SBF.